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can !>e found in this part of t]ie country. Among other things 

 I have three African dates, fifteen English walnuts, forty-one 

 Spanish chestnuts. I intend to replant the two latter this au- 

 tumn upon a plantation unoccupied for five years. I find plenty 

 of work ; I have a good farm-house, besides out-houses, in which 

 I can sit ci nd overlook the gro7»'ing fruits and labors of one year's 

 work. My tea field here is a valley running north and south, 

 and the ceut^.r of that valley I have trenclied 1,400 feet, three 

 feet wide and two dee]?, v.'ith a descent from the northern reser- 

 voir of water to the southern of twenty feet. This trench I 

 divide by danis'about 100 feet asunder, and thus have an ample 

 supply of v.ater running three feet from the first row of tea 

 plants, vrith sufficient capacity to irrigate the valley at pleasure. 

 The chief part of tlie valley is bottom land, and suliiciently rich 

 without the aid of manure at present. 



The capabilities of this small plantation of about 300 acres i& 

 the most extniordinary. I should like you to see it. The people 

 here know nothing but to plant corn and cotton, and have 

 recently, so I hear, given out that the tea cultivation is a 

 total failure. Why, they do not appear to know the diifer- 

 ence between a tea plant and its cultivation from a saw mill. 

 Ko one,''or very few, understands or appreciates my undertaking, 

 can enter into my views or appreciate the enterprise, or cares a 

 pin whether it succeed or not, but rather looks with jealousy 

 and contempt upon a blockhead dreaming of future results. 



None of these things move me one hair. I ought by this time 

 to know something of my own business. 



My kind regards to the gentlemen of the Institute. 



The railroad from Greenville to Charleston by Columbia runs 

 through my farm, is now going forward with great spirit for such 

 a country, and will open great facilities for future operations. 



Yours most sincerely, 



JUNIUS SMITH. 



17tli August. My apple and peach trees are so loaded with 

 choice fruit that I am obliged to convert the former into cider, 

 and the latter into brandy, to save them from a total loss. The 



