Letter from Ozem Thompson and Electa Z. Nelson Woodruff, 19 November 1855
Answd June 1st [18]57
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trim in blosom time
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Golden Sweet great baren tree stand all Clime
[illegible] Sweet great barrren every year tree
stands all climate will those apples in the
sune a few days before you put them in
your cellar and they will keep all winter
harvist sweet bough apples will ripen one
at time tree rather tender those market street
sweets apples nice trees stand all climate
Early none such I cut off from my Father
farm in Co grafted buy vermonters sense
we left the best apple you ever saw
I want you to remember when you
ete [eat] that apple that it growed on your
Father farm your native Cuntry the fruit
is [illegible] all good I cente ^wante^ you as soon
as you get those cions iff you gete them this
fall or winter take write oute all currants
grapes goosebury [willers] and bury them
in the ground in the Spring set them
out strait up and down bearieing one bud
out of the groun just as you want them
to grow watter them William F Hubard is
a honest man he has started a large nursery
on the corners south off me where you go
out buy Jocob Russel you can get any
thin[g] you can ask for off him there illegible
in some off the nusrsery trees greate maney
small imperial sweet apples I have grafted
nursery trees over
