Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1876 — When to Plant Fruit Trees? [ARTICLE]

When to Plant Fruit Trees?

Messrs. Editors: As I have frequently been asked the above question, I take this method of answering it. It depends much upon the season; if we have frequent rains, as we had last fall, and as we are also having this, the fall soason is, I think, equally as good as spring; but if it should be very dry I should not reccommend fall planting. I would say, however, to those who live some distance from the nursery, to get their trees in the tall, and if they have not the ground ready, and prefer to wait until spring to put them out, bury the trees in the ground and they will keep just as safely as if left in the nursery. The time to plant trees is as follows: In the fall, from the 10th to the last of October. In the spring, *py time during the month of April. John Coen.

The reunion of the old Ninth, on Thureday, was a very happy gathering of the veterans. The number ot comrads present, was 81. The formal business ot the organization was transacted ip the Wigwam, in the forenoou, alter which came the love feast. About halfpast 12p.m., the baitallion was formed, and headed by the .Elkhart band and escorted by the Wide Awakes, marched to Concert Hall, where the old soldiers, with a few invited guests, partook of a splendid banquet, furnished by the citizens, and served by some of the patriotic ladies of LaPorte. The tables Were superbly decked with boquets the coverings being edged with flowers and evergreens. After dinner the comrads returned to the Wigwam, where they listened to the reading of letters from the absent members, aud speeches from various gentlemen, till after 4 p. m. —La Porte Herald. Our old friend Simon P. Thompson, »e fear is in tailing health. One day early in the Week, we saw him in earnest conversation with fUjw*}/ jfoot Pike, at Oxford, and eveSr since his countenance displays a look of despondency.-"Pow/er fira. > ■ '• >•vV' :.' ' . 4 * .