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John & Chas. Kennicott Pittsfield Dec 11th 1856

Gents

In examining your Catalogue of Fruits trees &c I find a number of varieties which I have not, and wish you to fill this small bill for my own use & forward to me Early in the [page torn - Spring?]; say when the frost would not injure them, I wish to obtain some of the best & the most choicest kinds of fruits, and them shipped by the River from Lasalle to Florence Care of [W?]. Peckenpaugh, I want you to send me good straight trees & good size say for apples 15 to 18[cents] ea Pear's 75c Plums 35 to 40[cents] ea Cherris do Peaches 25 ea (Quines 50[cents] Ea Apricots 50 = Grapes $1.00 for 1/2 doz Goose berries dos pr 1/2 doz Currents $1.00 pr doz [page torn - Pie P?]lant $1.00 pr doz Raspberries $1.00 pr 1/2 doz.

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[written in two columns] Apples

1 Fameuse (winter 1 Mother do 2 R.I. Greening do 1 Fallow Water do 1 Pound Royal " 1 Newtown Spitzberger " 1 wine Sap " 2 Newtown Pippin " 1 Melon Norton " 1 Pryors Red " 1 Red Gilli Flower "

Peaches

1 Crawford Tate 1 New York Rare ripe 1 Geo the Fourth

Apricots

1 Royal Downing 1 Breda 1 Musch

Currents

1/2 dz Roots white [Duke?] 1/2 doz " Victoria

[back to 1 column] Summer

1 Earley Strawberry 1 Red June (12 Roots Pie Plant Hybrids $1.00 doz

Fall do

1 Maiden Blush 1 Townsend 1 Autumn Strawberry 1 Superb sweet 1 King of the Pippins

[written in two columns] Pears

2 Bartlett } 2 Flemish Beauty } 2 White Doyenne } 2 Buff[inn?] }

Quinces

4 Orange

Nectarines

1 Earley Violet 1 Perkins Seedling

Plums

1 [Caes?] Golden Drop 1 Imp Gage 1 Yellow "

Cherries

1 Elton 1 Cleaveland ([Biges?] 1 Gov woods

Gooseberries

3 Roots Early Yellow 3 Houghtons Seedling

Grapes

4 Roots Madesia

Raspberries

1/2 doz Haskell yellow 1/2 " American Blk

[back to one column] Will you please write me if you can send me the above

you propose to discount 5 [illegible] for Cash, , you will please send me the bill when you shipthem and I will forward the Dimes without delay

Your friend Marcellus Ross