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9 P.S. After my letter was closed I felt I must tell you about some of the things that are growing in the door yard here.
Sarah you are a botanist I wish you could see the English Ivy that grows at the corner of the Piazza, one of the trunks is
good nine inches around and another a little less, the vine covers one side of the wide Porch? runs over the top, up on the
roof of the house and is part way up on the chimney then it runs along the front and over the balcony, passing through the
side of the house some way and is running along the wall of the room inside making beauty there as well also stretching out
and running up on the house inside of the Porch. Remember this is not in little sprays but in great heavy masses stading about
six feet high on