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in the yard is some most splendid speciments of shrubbery I wish they were in your yard or some just like them. All kinds of roses I should think and thousands of them. Two great large rose bushes climb up the large square posts of the piazza and then they are round in bunches any where a great large - splendid Snow ball tree, Syringas, Lilacs, two in three great large bushes of climbing honeysuckles and another beautiful climbing-vine they call Washington's Bower, creeps up one side of the house, and right in front of my window is a beautiful little bush they call flowering currant, oh it is so fragrant, Did you ever see one, there I'm going to get a little sprig and press and send you - There I've got it but you wont have any idea of it without seeing and smelling it in the open air, The house has a right and left wing sort of queer but I guess pretty good plan, and the front yard has a right and left wing, and those are for fruit and vegetables some flowers and roses & vines? &c in one though, in one Bailey he has his hol=beds and transplants from, he has all sorts of vegetables. Yesterday we had Lettuce and radishes we've had pie plant and greens two weeks, is'nt it unclear Pease are 6 or eight inches high tomatoes early cabbages and corn &c as forward - Then he has several strawberry beds of different kinds early and late, white, red and black currants in abundance, white, red and black raspberry, ditto, English and common goseberry, Tame and wild plums, Isabella & Clinton grapes in extreme abundance, besides which he has an orchard of Apple, peach, pear, and cherry trees, all large enough to bear and now in full bloom. And that is on the other side of the front yard. That he plows and in that plants little cuttings to make other orchards and gardens - I went out this