CB06_0026

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Oct 22 [187]9

J.N. Ballard Esq

Dear Sir

Your favor received. As to the shrubs,
proprietors usually prefer to pay a price above the
market value & cost of setting out, and then when
the shrubs do not live call on us to replace
them, which of course could not be done if not
charged for at a higher price. I will alter the price
as you suggest.

In regard to the myrtle one hundred and twenty
five and often more plants are used on a single
grave. When the florists put in myrtle they usually put in
a much smaller number of plants and it takes much
longer for the grave to become well covered. Then again
two loads (cart loads) of loam and one fourth a cart
load of manure was put on the graves in place of the
gravel, as we find that if not well prepared the
myrtle does not do well, beside which the myrtle needs
constant watering which has been given it all summer.
As I said, I charged you the usual price which is not
an unreasonable one for the work done, and supposed