Richland Oct 26 1851 Dear Brother I received a letter late Oct 25 from you we was glad to here that you and Father and family ware all well I allso received a letter the same time from Brother Asmon stateing that he is at Horatio Stanlley in Pen Green Coun west Beuer Dam he will soon be on his way to Burlingto I [Oey] there to spend the winter with Sister Eunis and

when you get your cions holm make abox and put your cions in lay a laying off [illegible] then alay off cions untill your box is full then cover over with spruise or hemloc bou[gh]s be careful and not let them mold then there I will keep a hole season the [Schemehorn] graft ^put them in cellar^ from the first off March to the middle off June but the best time to graft in the hole world is on the swell off the bud just ass they beguin to leaves you ...

as to pare and apple seeds you can cary anny way let them raise them priee plant spring or fall the nursery men raise there nursery buy sowing seeds the next spring they graft the middle of the row buy spliseing them like cutting cornstalks leave two buds in the grown and one out bury the hole splise in the grown iff you will tell me where to mail a bundle off cions and thent they will goe there safe I will send you abundal [a bundle] off cions as good as can be goat ...

Thompson Woodruff Oct 28th [stamp in black ink] Richland OCT 28 N.Y. Mr. Willford Woodruff City of the Great Salt Lake Deseret [written in sideways text] 80 17 63