RKBP-363

Waukegan April 8th 1858

Dear Doctor

I send things you ordered tomorrow by a man in my employ. I would like good Austrian & Scotch Pines 4 to 6 ft. If you can spare 40 or 50 and want Remontant Roses, Lawton Blackberries or anything in my wholesale list next fall in payment please send them along. I will try to send you a good selection of potted Dahlias in time for planting.

I will have Lawton Blackberries low by the quantity next fall as I have a large quantity in propagation, indeed I would not have had the conscience to charge you such price for them now had it not been that I paid high for them last spring, they were then 2 or 3 inches high andI have put 1 years growth on to them. Please delay the man as short a time as possible, to give him time to get home saturday night.

Respectfully Yours Robert Douglas

P.S. Some of the Spireas are not worth garden room in fact we have better growing wild on the beach than Japonica Grandiflora & Rosea. The two formed I had of E S Barry the latter of Andre Le Roy. I have several other varieties but have lot the names.

R D

Friday Morning

Dear Doctor, I wrote you a letter last night my hands are ice cold now I cannot write.

1 1/2 dozen paeonies 6.00 50 Gooseberries 4.00 50 Anahenia 9.00 24 Lawton Blackberries 9.00 Strawberries 3.00 Spirea 2.00 -------------- 33.00

I would like 40 or 50 Austrian & Scotch Pines 4 to 6 ft if you want anything of mine next fall, I will have plenty of Remontant Roses and Lawton Blackberries the latter will be very low.

R Douglas

Dr John A Kennicott In acct with Robt Douglas

50 Mahonia Aquafolia at 18 C per 100 $9.00 50 Gooseberries at 8C 4.00 1 1/2 Doz Paeonies at 4C 6.00 24 Lawton (New Rochelle) Blackberries 3/- each 9.00 9 Spireas var 2.00 600 Strawberries 3.00 -------------- $33.00

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J.A. Kennicott M.D. West Northfield Ill

written across left of address Douglas