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Home Marion Co Ill Nov 4, 1857 Mesr J.A. & Chas Kennicott Gentlemen Your three favor in relation to the last shipment of trees & c came to hand. The trees were also recd and are safely heeled in - I was fortunate in meeting the train which brought them at Odin-- I am very much pleased with the article, themselves and the condition in which they arrived- presenting on strong contrast with some trees which the amt? of Elivanges & Barry have here Not more than 20 per ct of the latter can

possibly service the coming season while I shall be very much astonished at with ? pring the death of a single one of yours I did lose two of thise evergreens you sent me last spring by pure unsantized neglect- nothing else- of the 500 apple trees not one died although the last summer ( a very dry one here) they passed through without even mulchingThe varities of pear & apple sent are first rate although I did wish a few of Flemish Beauty & Beurre Diel- the Cheries & Plums I know less about but the authorities, (of which you are certainly one of the best) say they are all

right The Rose & bulbs have not yet been examined as the borders are not yet ready. In the press of matters last spring I made no memorandum of the freight you prepaid on the evergreens Let it stand as you have it until I find the receiptHave already let go all the peach stones, I can spare regret much you did not advise me sooner-- should I lay hands on any will send these along-- I am ploughing my orchard growth one foot deep honest measure & as the ground has been long (30 years)in cash from ? probably have nothing to

of blight to fear as the activity of high culture Our friend O.B. Galash has been here- Expressing his firm determination to pull up stakes & come down-- In haste Truly your friend John P Reynolds West Northfield Ill.

P.S. will send you bal, as soon as I can get any exchange on either Chicago or N.Y.