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our animals & reptiles are about the same
as those found in your neighborhood.
How have your Fruit Trees withstood
the extreme cold? Our Peach Trees are
all dead, young & old, our Plum Trees are
ditto, while a majority of our Apple Trees
(young Trees just coming into bearing, old ones not
injured much as I can see) if not dead are
pretty badly used up I am afraid; though
the Apple Trees we received of you last Fall
and set out the same time, do not appear to
be injured, the Peach Trees we "[Illegible] in" &
earthed up well about them, so that only
the tops are killed. Our Thermometer stood
at 27 below at sun rise. I see by the Prairie
Farmer you had quite a body of snow to
protect your Trees (we had about two inches)
so I hope your nursery Peach Trees are not
much injured, Plum Trees also, of which
please request Charlie to inform me as
we would like to replace our dead ones.
I have not seen or heard of an insect on
the Osage Orange, nor do I wish to, for we
have a mile & a half of the hedge & are
calculating to set out as much more