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plants of the former and six of the
latter, & if you have them not
shall want you to get them for
me. I propose to do a little
landscape gardning in the spring
& shall need quite a bill of Shrubs
plants & a few evergreens. Have
not fully determined about the Avon
[Gitar?] hedge yet, but will do so in
season. Some times I think I
will give up and not try to have a
nice place - we meet with so many
disappointments - the worms & vermin
are so destructive in summer and
the cold winters kill so many things.
But there is no use of being discouraged
am only 33 years old & hope to live to
see things change in the course
of ten years or so.