Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1913 — Sentimental Cherry Trees. [ARTICLE]

Sentimental Cherry Trees.

“If you live in a boarding house back room, and if you. see through your window some day that the landlady is trying her best to protect some little sprigs of trees along the board fence from the cold, covering the roots with straw and the treetopa with burlap, you need not gp to the trouble of asking what kind of trees they are,” said the gray-headed man. "You may set them down at once as Japanese cherry trees. “They are planted there because a Japanese once boarded in the house, and after he went home he sent the landlady the very nicest thing he could think of as a token of appreciation and esteem. That meant Japanese cherry trees. There are three cherry trees in our back yard. The landlady mothered a young Japanese who boarded with her through a spell of sickness. He got well and went home. First thing along, came the cherry trees. They are thrifty trees, but they still get a good deal of coddling."