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Morries Kennedy of Illinois
April 12, 1858
Sir,
I beg leave to make a few in-
quises 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