Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-27
ANOTHER TEX.s Poss1sJLIrY.

We love TO talk of the many important
possibilities lying open to Texas, even
though our people should never take ad-
vantage of them. But they will. 1t may
not come while we are so thinly settled,
and, as q consequence, there is no crying
need that our people should hustle, but that
kind of thing will not always pertain in the
Lone Star safe; besides, there are many
men of many minds-and tastes-in this
great world of ours, and it might be that
possibility pointed out might strike par
ticular people who are looking after Just
that kind of thing, and hence be the means
OF giving us new colony located for the
purpose of running 4 new industry. "Who
kncwsl' as they say in the Orient.
The state of Florida has by some means
won the sobriquet of = the land of flowers"
While not at all desiring to wiring her hon
ors from Florida, we couldn't help showing
in several articles of some months ago that
Texas is really the land of flowers, SO far as
pertains to the United States of America.
There are more beautiful and rich wild
flowers in Texas, by far, than there are in
five times her territory any where else on
this continent. True, they are largely
spring and early summer flowers, but I'M
der irrigation flowers, the richest known to
any country within the temperate zone,
might be made almost perpetual-certainly
so through all the long season intervening be-
tween the latest spring and the earliest fall
frOsts, more than nine months in the year.
But, says one, what of flowers in an
economic point of viewl We are proposing
TO show you. MIR. Z. o. Painter, the tai
ented and ever reliable editor of the Florida
Agriculturist. not long ago paid his respects
20 new Florida industry, the likes of
which could be made to do better in Texas
than anywhere else. He gave it to the pub
lie that at Island Grove, Alachua county,
In his state, there was smart new wooden
building having on it a sign board in bold
letters, Atlanta Perfumery Company" To
satisfy himself that it actually meant some
thing he visited the concern. where he
found veritable perfumery manufacturing
plant in full blast. It had been located
there on account OF the suitableness Of the
region for growing flowers. Investigation
showed that the company had plenty of
money, and already the concern was driv-
ing most decidedly paying business in its
manufacture of perfumes.
Mr.. Painter learned the prices being paid
by the company for such materials as the
plant was working. For tube roses the
price was Is certs per pound; Arabian jes-
samine, 10; cape iessamine 10; heliotrope,
20; violets, so; lemon verbena, SC; rose ge-
ranium leaves, 4; rose geranium leaves and
cuttings, 3; fragrant roses, 10; magnolia,
10; yellow iessamlne, 20; American vanilla
leaves deer tongue), IL.
All Of these products can be grown to the
highest degree of excellence in Texas. The
magnolia, yellow jessamine and American
vanilla are wild growths attaining to the
greatest perfection ali along the eastern
border Of the state
The plant mentioned by Mr.. Painter was
simple and inexpensive one. Its cost, all
in running order. was about $500, and it
cou,isted Of one copper still OF 100 gallons