Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1871 — Maxwell & Co.’s Circular. [ARTICLE]

Maxwell & Co.’s Circular.

To the Farmers of Jasper, Newton, Benton and White counties: Riant an orchard—a beautiful, healthful, profitable orchard. It will grow while you sleep. It will pay better tliau any other investment you can make upon your farms. It will double the value of your property. It will afford you more pleasure ami luxury than anything else you can do.s It will make another link to bind your sons and daughters more firmly to Jheir homes, and future generations will rise up*and bless you. Select for your orchard an elevated or rolling site, and if the aspect be northern so much the better. As soon as sufficiently dry to work stir tho ground deep and thoroughly. Ditch so that no surface water will stand on it. Dig the holes for the trees twenty inches deep, and wide enough to give every root an easy and natural position. Throw the bottom clay to ono side, to be piled upon the surface around the tree.

In planting first throw a few inches of good soil in the bottom of the hole; put in the tree; incline it a little to the southwest; put in two or three inches more of good soil; throw in a bucket of w r ater, and after letting it stand from fifteen to thirty minutes, fill up the hole and press the soil closely around the roots; make a mound around the tree with the clay, and put old straw for a few feet around the tree to tho depth of two or three inches. However well you may have done, don’t stop with the applo alone.— Have your pear orchard, with its golden, melting fruit; the cherry in all its early deliciousness; the downy, blushing peach; the grape—the glorious, cooling, healthful, luscious grape. Neglect not the plum and the berries. And if you do all this, health and wealth, luxury and long life, joy and happineas will be yours.

When you arc ready to plant your trees, come to Remington, Indiana, and get them at Maxwell & Co.’s nursery. We have a fine lot of trees and vines, of all kinds and varieties, adapted to tho prairie and this climate, which we offer for sale as cheap as such stock can be had elsewhere. It is largely your interest to purchase your trees from us — Ist. Because you will know just what you are getting when you buy A- (UK . 2nd. You avoid tho oxposuro of the roots to the air to dry, aud also avoid all injury to tho tree from accidents in shining. 3rd. You can get them when you are ready for them—ground all prepared, etc.— ’'and they need, not be out of the.ground but a few hours. This is a very important itorh.

It very man, woman and child in need of boots or slmes should see tho now stock just received at Hopkinb’ Confide