RKBP-546

367 GreenCastle March 17 1859 Dear Sir Your letter of March 10 is received, and I must answer very briefly, for I have but little time. I had written a letter to you, and it was ready for mailing at the time that I received yours. I think I can find cash pur -chases at home for every peach tree I have, at retail prices. So that you see it is my interest to keep them, and of course you do not dis -appoint me by not wanting them. I thought I was over -stocked, but the demand is better than I expected. I have some three or four hun -dred tulip trees about four feet high, which have been in the

Nursery too years. I would be glad to send you all. They are beautiful trees, well shaped and smooth, just such if me would like, expect that they are larger than your [norte] leads me to refer ^that you [illegible]. I have but a few red bud- They are about four feet. I am now carrying on the [business] alone-- the hardest of the times [oppenoes] me, and I am not able to hire__ I have more ground than I can [attend] well with the means now at my disposal. This kind of stock is not saleable in this market, and I would like to close it out; to start with it again perhaps when I shall again get my head sufficiently above water. I could find you redbuds enough, perhaps in the woods, but I have no time to go for than myself, and there is no

One i can trust to gather than alone. You spoke last fall of[ lone] sweet gums--some 100 or 150. I have serve 500 about four or five feet high__ [timethirty] plants of good form; if [pre ea] so I would like to send ^some there, [illegible] as many as [illegible] spoke of getting last fall. I can send a few [deapolia] Ac[illegible]minate six feet high, though trimmed rather higher there suits your locality. It would be very easy though, to give them lowheads. I have no chesnuts. I have about a bushel and a half of [Reach stones]. 1/2 bushel I kept [imply], the next I bought a doz or two [ago]. They were represented to be able [right], and, outwards, looked so. I have not examined them. If good, I will send you a few. I would like to send you as

many of all these as open would want, for what they are worth-- If there is any established price for such stock I want it-- if there is no such I want just what they are worth and no more. They are all good as can be. and what they are worth they are weel worth. I would like to send you enough to pay what is owing you, and to furnish me with send varieties of fruits--(raspberries, grapes, cur -rants) (quiet enough to get the varieties) a few dwarf pears, if [respectly] can[illegible], and for the rest, to draw upon you hereafter. I have also Catalpas six feet high, large enough to stand our winters unhurt if you could do anything with them, I would like to send me some/ I am in [nearly] the situation you describe for yourself as

to financial affairs, and like you, the amount of [stools] I want this spring will be limited to the [sendllet] amount of f[illegible] [charges.] Freight is money. I set no price on my stock, for I know not what to chargeThe Tulip trees I think, are worth 10 cts a piece. the sheet [gums ] 15 or 20. They ought to bring 20-- I do not know whether I could get that. Make a bid. I wish to get the variety of [illegible] Albany strawbery-- If we make a trade you can send it with the res-- If not, seed [illegible] send me a dozen plants by mail, and I will pay charges. Yours Respectfully W. [A. Larabee] Have yo any grapes besides those mentioned in your Catalogue, (Isabella