- Glover
- and another
I indulged myself this morning with a longer term of repose than is my
usual custom, and after the tension and anxiety of preparation for the
last two months gave myself a holiday for idleness. The day was so cold
that I could write but little in my cham- and I spent part of the time
before dinner in my garden, and after dinner in my Seminary, digging for
exercise and sowing seeds for future vegetation alteri seculo although
these places have lost the attraction of Spring and Summer— Charles went to Boston and returned
to dine— I planted a row of dwarf Apple seeds from the young Baldwin
Apple-tree next the road to the Summer house cellar, and a row of Dexter
Apple Seeds in front of the Seminary fence, from the fir tree to the
second elm. My purpose is if life be allowed me to observe for two or
three Summers the difference of growth of the seedlings from these and
other varieties of the Apple-tree— I have several seedlings of this
year, I believe from the seeds of the dwarf tree— They are living and
appear to be healthy, but are not one inch high; while the stem of the
tall seedling opposite the Summer house cellar has grown 21 inches this
Session: one of the shoots from a bud inserted in August 1834 and which
first opened a year afterwards has grown full three feet this Season—
This difference of growth in a Season, from one inch to three feet, in
varieties of the same fruit is the most remarkable phenomenon that has
struck my observation— I would gladly continue and give precision and
variety to my experiments till they should end in some useful result;
but I have not the time— Two young men from Boston were here this
afternoon; one of them named Glover who
enquired, if I would sell my Estate at the Corner of Tremont and
Boylston Streets, which I said I would, but that having no particular
desire to sell I should ask a high price for it. He enquired what price;
and I said I should be glad to enquire what it would be thought worth by
others— That I had given twenty-thousand dollars for it more than thirty
years ago, and I asked what he would estimate as its value himself—he
was not willing to say— I told him I would in the course of two or three
days fix a price which I would take for it, and send him word by my Son;
at whose office he said he would call— I asked Charles what he thought
would be a reasonable price to fix upon it; he said thirty thousand
dollars, and I 345authorised him to name that to
Mr Glover as my price— Mary, and Charles with his wife, went and passed the Evening
at Mr Thomas
Greenleaf’s.