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Prairie City Wis

July 1st 1859

Mr Kennicott Dear Sir

Can you supply us with the following in in [illegible] & so 150 Neplus ultra Gooseby of good size 150 White Smith " 200 White Grape Currant 2 ys from cut do you consider this the best white current grape 200 Red dutch 2 ys from cutting 200 White do " " " 200 Early Richmond Cherry } 100 Maducke " } Standard & 3 ys from bud Should like some dwarfs of same kinds 200 Isabella grape 2 ys 100 Qunce good size

Shall probably want to purchase a bile similar to the above the coming fall

Could you furnish us with the cutting of the following varieites

500 White Grape 500 White Grape dutch 1000 Red dutch Have you any good

sampels of strawerry or is it too late I sent to Prairie farmers Office with orders to send us samples of a few of the best varieties of strawbery but I fear he was too late If he fail to get them there we will have to do without though he find they are the best advensement we have or can get to induce people to buy

Every thing we planted from your nursey is doing well scarcely lossing any except the dutch fragrant Honeysuccle none of them grew He are One of us is spending a little time just now selling trees &c for fall delivery I must mension something I saw yesterdy in a neighboring town soon (soon) which was a grand sight to me A Gentleman planted one small root of Isabella grape (one year from Cutting) in the spring of 1.57 & at this date I feel safe in saying that the grapes if measured in the bunch would fill & bushel measure It far surpasses any thing I ever saw both in groth of vine & fruit His mode of treatment is to train on a common Arbor & the manure he uses is any kind of refuse flesh such chicken

Entrails rats &c toghether with with a good quanty of lime but I must close Answer as soon a convenant

Yours with Respet Griffin & Cunningham

We find it verry hard to collet money [illegible] not withstang the meny promises from tree purchasers that they would pay in a few days & we have gave up trying to collect before Sept as the wheet crop will bring some money then

Wheat is thin on the ground but filling verry well so say farmers I certainly think this portion of Illinois Cannot be beaton for quanty & groth of corn this year It would [illegible] [illegible] suffise. even Joseph of Old [illegible] & C

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[postmark] ARINGDON JUL 2 ILL.

[written] Mr John A Kennicott West Northfield Cook Co Ills

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