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Mount Pleasant Liberty ville, Lake Co Novr 10th/58-
Gentlement,
Having a small lot of Apple seedlings I wish to Root Graft, during the approaching winter, to the following varieites. namely, Red June, Carolina Red June Sweet June, Sweet nonsuch, Hocking Wine Sap White winter Pearmain Will Jury Fulton Dominic Herefordshire Pearmain, Witney's Russett,, Ramosdells Sweet, Baily Sweet, Minkler. Should like about 25 or 30 scions of each variety, or any of them. if you can oblige me please let me know and also the cost -
Four years ago I had some apple trees from yours nursery, several of them are now badly pestured with the seale insect. What is the best application I can give them, someperson [illegible] recommends in Co. Gent. Strong lye and as much salt as will dissolve, I am rather afraid of using salt, what do you think of it? Is it any use to apply anything so late in the Fall or in winter? Something must before their next leaving out or twill be the labours of an Herculus to rid the orchard of them. Be so kind as to give us your advice -
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Will you favour me with what you think the best selection of Peaches for this neighborhood from early to late, and price I don't know but that I may be wanting some come spring, for to carry out what I now have some intention of Peaches, will be rather an important fruit I will tell you of my proposed plan which is contingent on my parents determination this winter_ My Father & mother are well up in years, and am myself disqualified physically disqualified for doing farm work, they are about determined to sell a go to England otherwise I propose, as we get many visitors here in summer time, to convert a portion of our grounds into a sort of public summer gardens _ We have already a pretty respectable family Orchard planted at intervals, since we came here four years ago_ with a good sprinkling of high flavoured food vareties, and a garden well plied with small fruits, so we can easily shall only have to go, propogate them more extensively to put our grounds in as good & ornamental a condition as our small means will admit of to put up a few rustic arbours, and in one year we should be prepared to invest submit our grounds to the Public Patronage and by making a few gals. of currant wine next sum
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this place will afford them ample chance of comparison and hence a cultivated taste so as to appreciate the superior - Have you the Rostiezer & [Anglolum?] & [Desnonnes?] Pears I think I ought to add them to my list what is the price - should like to plant sixty or seventy dwarfs if money was not so shy. believe I must go to Capt. Morris & get some Quinces & work them myself - Excuse my long letter & bad scribble, and
I am, Gentlemen
Yours Respectfully
[illegible] Fare
P. S. Can you inform me when I can obtain a copy of the Transactions of The Northwestern Fruit Growers association at their last session W F
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mer we should be able to cater to them the following summer abundantly of small fruits & cream a bottle of wine occasionally & perhaps some apples, Plums, Cherries, Pears and a few Peaches as many of our trees should bear slight crops by that time, and so would my Grape vines wh I have the Miller's Burgundy, Royal Muscatine, Catawba Isabella & Diana, and hope soon to get the Concord & Delaware- Flowers too must have a plan for attraction, they also can be made at least self supporting by selling boquets to the visitors for say from 12 1/2 to 25 cents each according to selection made and perhaps to complete the whole and observatory some 25 or 30 feet should be erected, the fram ing would do to trellis heavy grapes on. What do you think of the Picture, won't it be more suitable to an invalid and old age, and more remunerative than grain culture. I have solicited the opinion of several of my friends on such a proceeding, they mostly think favourable and say they believe once such an establishment was known, there will be no lack of visitors, many persons would like to make up picknic parties if there was an interesting pace to go to - further Should will it not be a benefit to the public? It is well known to market Cultivators that size and appearance of fruits generally is esteemed more by the masses than quality a large Red
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showy apple though so acid & rough as to be unendurable to a cultivated palate will be sought after and appreciated, by the masses, in preference to our most superior fruits this ought not to be. it gives encouragement to cultivate many inferior fruits that ought long ago be consigned to the hades, But how is it to be remedied says some one? Why
by cultivating the palate. taste like other senses need cultivating, which can only be done by comparing the inferior with some standard of excellence, how then will be the place for accquiring a correct taste for I hope to have generally some fruits, in their season, of standard excellence and also some fruit of less merit, and as visitors may obtain any of the fruits grown, excepting immature one, by paying the value of
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Messrs. Kennicotts Grove Nurseries Northfield, Cook Co. Ills.
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[UF?] AN NOV 12 Ill.
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W. Fare Libertyville