Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-18
A SUNDAY OUTING.
The Banner Reporter Spends Sunday in the
Country, Feasts Upon Fruits and
Drinks in the Pure Country
Air, Ambient With the
Aroma of Flowers.

his buggy Sunday morning, the re
porter was permitted to spend {
pleasant day in the country, anC
while we cannot attempt to describe
all we saw, we feel sure the readers
of the BANNER will kindly bear will
US while We attempt to tell some
thing about the trip, which we
hasten to do while yet almost ''to
full for utterance," before the re,
action comes which is liable to occur
from over indulgence.
Mr.. Watson is horticulturist and
by the way President of the State
Horticultural society, and his farm
some two-and-a-half miles east of
the city is a vast orchard, which is
cultivated with improved labor saving
machinery and kept like garden,
and in being shown over the fields
of fruit, sampling it as we went and
listening at Mr.. Watson expiate up
on its merits is where a great deal
of our pleasure came in-and as the
samples of luscious fruit were so
pletiful we were never in a position
to more appreciate our holding
capacity.
Mr.. Watson has acres of plums
ripening all the way from May to
Augustand some of the finest we ever
saw, peaches of innumerable variety
though this is not a good year for
peaches and may of his trees are not
in bearing. Of pears, grapes,
japanese persimons and in fact all the
fruits, indigious to the south, if he
hasn't orchards of it, he has a few
trees in bearing and thousands
of young ones FOR the trade. But
his efforts are net all directed to
Horticulture for he is also President
of the Washington county Truck
Growers Association a considerable
portion of his farm is DEVOTED to the
raising of watermeIons, of which he
has large acreage of very fine ones. |
After an elegant dinner, such as
can only be set at a well regulated
farm house where yellow-legged |
every variety of the finest |
fresh vegetables and fruits formed
the component parts had been served
Mr.. Watson waited until such a re-
past had scarcely settled when he
cut a watermelon of a Georgia
variety which the reporter was used
to. and as fond of as a Georgia
negro, after which he hitched up
and drove US through winding
avenues densely shaded with tower
ng poplars, silver naples and
through lanes of beautiful mag
queen of the South
ern forest-where the air was am
oient with the perfume of
is magnificent and incom-
parable flowers, and up to
RosEDALE
he home of his father Mr.. VIM.
Watson. There we were warmly
by the gentleman whose
picture this week graces the front
page of the Texas Farm and Ranch
IS one of Texas model farmers, but
When invited into his library which
contains a choice collection of some
1000 volumes one would think he {
vas engaged in some literary per- 1
nit, but outside of this elegant {
lome is the indisputable evidence
# his being model farmer, the c
of a model home, in the c
enter of a veritable flower dale sur t
ounded by the most beautiful
most tastefully laid out of
ny the writer has had the pleasure
f visiting in the south. Rare flow L
rs, every conceivable variety of I
rees, both fruit and ornamental a
hat will grow In the South are at t
losedale nursery in great abund- S
nee, and still we were told that we ]
ad not been shown a good portion q
f the place, but that a birds-eye Fl
lew of 1t might be seen from the a
over On his residence. Up four b
lights of winding stairs we YEARLY a
ended our way to the very top, Is
nd up there, while the south
reeze from the gulf dried up the
eads of perspiration from the effort
ascending, we looked around c
YER the beautiful scenery extend $
lg the circle of our vision over we'll II
ept fields of cotton and waving a
orn dotted here and there by farm y
ouses until upon the edge of our P
orion in the distance could be "
zen Chappell Hill, Independence n
nd. Wesley, and turning glasses u
pom this city it was observed that o
airing the cupulo of the court n
ouse the New Exchange hotel ap-
ears to Hoom up" above every
ling else in this city, parties COM Ii
g in and out beng plainly dig in q
lishable. 1t was a glorious wv Y
the surrounding country and we'll "
orth the visit up there. But all G,
lings must end-so must this %
zee pretty soon-and as we looked