RKBP-422

Iowa City Aug 20th 1858 Dr J. Kennicott Dear Sir I have been informed that you keep on hand, for sale, a variety of the best strawberries adapted to the west I am in want of some this fall and would like to have you send your prices for hundered by return of mail: also your opinion as to the best and most profitable of the following varieties Sangworths Proligic. McArangs Superior Honeys Sendlury, Becked Bri, Iowa Have you the Hucker and Willms (allovy) Seedling? if so, what do you think of them, and what do you ask for them Let me hear from you immediately as it is getting time for them to be set Truly yours George E Kimbali

P.S_ Please state whether your plants are properly mated having the requisite proportion of [illegible] and stammalis I have a fine bed of [illegible] [illegible] but they seem to be nearly all males Can you furnish me enough of the female kind to mate them? G. E. R.