Joseph Younglove Letter Page 8

Creator

Joseph Younglove

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Creation Date

4-25-1862

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. . . been transplanting strawberries. I last year partly prepared a bed nearly two hundred feet long. I have finished it this spring. It is not as I could wish as I could not get sand. I have commenced planting the bed with different varieties. I have made several rows of Triumph De Gand and Vicomptess Hericart De Thury and only a row or two of each other variety. I intend putting out almost every kind I have to try the hill system. The rows are run across the bed which is about six feet wide. The rows are two feet apart and the plants are placed eight inches apart I shall keep the runners down. The kinds I was most anxious to test are the English varieties. I have planted now about twenty varieties in the bed and will continue every evening to add a row or two until finished.

I have been smoking my peach plum & cherry trees with the Petroleum oil or well oil. Every fourth morn ing we put some in an iron ladle and set fire to it smoking the whole tree. I am in hopes the [Ciculix?] will vacate my premises.

If it would not be too much trouble to ask Mr Gilbert for a few Raspberry roots of what he considers his best variety do so and send by mail. Give him my com- pliments. Sarah also wishes to be remembered to him and his good lady. Ask Mr G if there is anything in this section that he would like me to send him. Give my love to all. Say to sister Mary Ann that her kindness to us is remembered and we miss her very much indeed we would like to live near you or have you near us. Kiss the children for us. Write often. Let me hear if anything turns up at the lumber mill either favorable or unfavorable. The children send love to you all. They have been in the garden getting flowers. The Tulips, Roses &c are blooming. The fruit trees have dropped their bloom.

Yours affectionately

Jos I. Younglove