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Lincoln Ills February 3rd 1856
Mess J A. & Chas Kennicot
Gentlemen -
I again am going to trouble you with an order for trees &c Some of my neighbors who noticed the tress I received from you last fall desired to get some of me, but as I had obtained those for my own use I did not spare any. I have promised however to get some for them this spring. and think some of going into the nursey business myself, but on a vy small scale however. The people about here have been in the habit of buying trees & peddlers who
deliver them at the station here at 15 cents for apples three year old & other trees in propotion. Unless yours could be furnished here so as to sell at the same rates I would not want any but for my own planting. I wish you would let me know upon what terms you could furnish me trees by the quantity. Have you apple stocks also those of other trees?
I will want a small lot for myself whether I take a quantity or not. but will not send a list until I hear from you. I ordered a few of the Catawba grape last fall. I suppose you will send them early in the spring. Please advise me in relation to the foregoing
as soon as convenient.
I owe an apology to Mr Robert Kennicot for not answering his enquiries in relation to the quadrupeds injurious to vegetation. Nothing would have given me greater pleasure than to have done so to the best of my ability. but his letter arrived during my absense east. it was mislaid. and it was not until the last of december that I found it among some papers where it was put by my family by mistake. concluding that the paper Mr Kennicot was preparing was for the 2nd vol. of the transactions of the society= I knew my information I could give would be too late. & consequently it was not answered at all. Any informa-
tion that it is in my power to furnish in relation to Agricultural or kindred subjects will be most cheerfully given. I have not much experience. but am seeking all the light it is in my power to obtain.
Yours vy Respectfully Wm. H. Young