Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1918 — Cherry Tree, 84 Years, Bearing. [ARTICLE]

Cherry Tree, 84 Years, Bearing.

Planted when Gen. U. 8. Grant was a lieutenant stationed at Fort Vancouver, a cherry tree on the farm of Grant Farmer on Ford’s Prairie, Wash., is still bearing at the age of righty-four years. It has a spread of G 5 feet and its trunk measures 10 feet 11 inches in circumference.