RKBP-372

Morries Kennedy of Illinois April 12, 1858 Sir, I beg leave to make a few inquises of you respecting the best kind of Trees to plant in a Cemetery. I have about two hundred soft Maples planted in our Cemetery last spring, they grow well: This Spring an examing their kind than tops of the trees alive and buding out, but about three incles above the ground the back is dead, and each tree how from one to five honest eating tyhe bood of the tree. I know was focused any in the Elm or Walnut. Then Mountain Sob, with few exceptions. are Willow, the tops are alive but about one foot from the ground the hood is dead, looks as if it had been frozen or burnt. Please give a list of suitabel trees for the Cemetery, proof against basers and hardy. Your early attention is respectfully desired, because we wish to plant trees this Spring. Yours very respectfully to John S. Kennicott, Eng. of the Morris Cemetery