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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