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                                                                                                                   Cedar Grove  Milo 1850

J.M. to I.S. Aug 29 Instigated & aided by Eliab Charles dug many Rocks from the door wood yard several of which were large and remov'd with difficulty altho' thier tops were but slightly exerted. above this line is it right for me to write a lie he didn't remove them he only fill'd em up A.M.M. Yesterday John removed the holes with the oxen & cart Charles is Breaking up on the intervale today

  The principle plant this week so far is that abundant greyish looking Mint which we us'd to call Balm & which is now just in Bloom I am somewhat inclined to think it a new species if so a grand discovery isn't it. It is either not described by Grey or is his exotic Mentha arvensis with which it nearly but not fully agrees & of which he says "Sparingly naturalized in Westchester Penn. & in Central Ohio." Do you know if you have ever seen it at Foxcroft or anywhere but here?
Aug. 29 I have with considerable labor dug out our specimens, laid away for Geum virginianum (Syn. G. album) and upon careful examination find it to be Potentilla arguta! & of course entirely a different plant from the Geum V. a true and undoubted specimen of which you sent in your last letter this Potentilla however like some others of its section of the genus is a large coarse plant in aspect resembling Geum

30 Esq Lowney Cut his throat and died yesterday had a little Son born 3 or 4 weeks ago whose youngest brothers (half) Axil B. & Wm. S. average about 30 years old. Charles sowed his acre of winter wheat yesterday got it at Brownville gave 2,25 bushel - is breaking up another piece on the intervale today the point between the Swale . A new polygonum today 8th of that name P. dumetorum (10th pr Big.)