20 August 1861 Maraekakaho My dear Donald I am happy to say we are all well here and things getting on pritty well. I have put in all the trees you sent and gave them every justice but we had some severe frost here lately but I hope it will not injure them. It has killed some of my young blue gum plants but not many. I have 400 more blue gums to put in this year. I find there is nothing like getting seed of all kind of trees and rear them myself so that I could plant them as the weather suited. I am now busy sowing grass seed. A good kind to get seed of and prepairing more ground for trees. I got some Scotch fur