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amiable and innocent being. I trust
you tied a black ribbon on Jack’s
tail – The Club dog was put in mourning.

You will be much better satisfied
in the end that you have given
Charlie so good an outfit.

When a green house can be
afforded we can stock it very
splendidly; but I should suppose
you yo would prefer to wait till
a good one could be afforded
without pinching in other respects.

Cactacea and such like we can
beg lots of – as of other fine things
and give in exchange western
plants – Ill bet I can get you a
great many jolly plants not
in ordinary western greenhouses.

I enclose several seeds of
the “American wistaria” given
me by smith the government garden
-er – try it.

If the tulips have to “stop
out,” they’ll keep very well in
sand; and tho they wont flower,
grow the next year if planted
in spring.

How do Jenks and Cracky
come on? will they trot square