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Great Valley N. Y. Feb 22d 1859 Mr. John A. Kennicott Dear Sir Yours of the 12th is at hand. We are well acquainted with you by reputation [2 words underlnd] & would ask no reference. We feel confident that we can deal with you in a manner that will be entirely satisfactory altho' our stock of salable trees is not yet large, we are enlarging as fast as we can & intend to make the cultivation of Evergreens our main business. We have now about 150 000 transplanted Evergreens have but a few thousnd in this country & about 100 000 in Europe for spring planting & shall put out a good lot of small trees from our native hills & a lot of Evergreen seed. In short we intend to have a ful assortment of Evergreens & as our climate & soil are so well adapted to their growth we hope to raise as good trees as any body & will endeavor to deal upon as fair terms. Your offer for exchanging is very fair but we shall not want to exchange anything this season tho' we have made some exchanges & may want to exchange with you some hereafter. We have a business connection with the F K Phoenix of Bloomington Ill & if he should want any thing of you at any time we would send you trees from here in exchange. We will send you samples of all the trees you want except the Magnolia Ae[?] - -a which are all [ltr crsd out]sold out. But our Arbor Vitae & Con[?]-on Spruce--Black & white -- are but one year transplanted. We expect to have a fine stock for sale next
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year of trees that are now one year transplanted. The Striped Maple [2 words underl] refuses to do well with us when cultivated. Our largest sized White Pine [2 words underl] are as fine as any I ever had & were all root - pruned last year. We intend to send out none but god plants stocky thrifty & well furnished & of such plants so far as we can now so we will have a large lot the next season. Yours truly S. G. Kelsey & Co
The samples we will send you at our wholesale rates.
