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Hillgrove Nursery Rockford March 22

Doct[underlined] Kennicott

My Dear Sir can you supply me with from one to three hundred of your large Hybrid Pie plant and at what price and a few Scions of the Johnathan Apple and Swan (Winter)

I have a Single tree of the Johnathan but it but it bears so much it has made no new wood I think it A No 1 I have some of the fruit now on hand which is first rate

We have four varities of Pie plant do not like Cahoons Grant never use it in our own family and to late and long a growing for market I have a varety I call Holmes seedling whch I selected from a large lot of seedlings it is early and superior in flavour to any thing we have tried

Please Write me at your earliest convenience

And Much Oblige yours &c H. H. Holmes

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Holmes is a good[underlined] Fellow - pity we have not a thousand Roots of Pie Plant, it would sell[underlined], without doubt - Send him a C