Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-09
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| snce, nave concluded to ask Vou question
| or Iwo.
lou nave been saying great deal about
| the beautiful wi,dhowers of our Texas
| prairieS, and my own observations con-
vince me thai You have not SAID one word
too much. | am originally from another
state, and have visited many states, but in
no other state have ! seen such magnificent
wildfiowers as in Texas; indeed taking
them as whole, have seen no tame flow
erS that could favorably compare with
them. Now, do YOU not think it would pay
someTexan TO collect seeds of these beautiful
wlldt1owers and put them for sale on the
general market The plants might not al,
do for out-of-door culture ut the extreme
North but no doubt they would be entirely
II home in all the lower southern states,
ana the people of those states are Il flower
loving people. Please lei NE hear from YOU
through The GAZETTE. Nou viii find my
real name and address on the back Of this
sheet, but don't prin; il. y LADY.
Fort Worth, Texas.
We think it highly probable that i con-
siderable business might be worked up in
the direction suggested by You, for seeds OF
our Towering plant are abundant and
easily collected, but il would cost good
deal 10 work the thing up. \ fine catalogue
would have to De put out AZ considerable
expense, giving nice Illustrations Of some
Of the most promin lnr species L would
furthermore be necessary 10 have the sciru-
tifc name of each species correctly given.
Ana il addition 10 this it would be- neces-
sary 20 do good deal OF newspaper ddvrr-
Using. Going into the work on any other
plan would scarcely bring in It paving re-
turn. If we were going into such i work
we'd make fine Texas peCanS for planting L
prominent feature in our operations. The
pecans, neatly illustrated. would help to-
wards drawing attention To the other seeds.
The first part of Your letter mentions
things i'll which we. ourseli, stand persou-
ally Interested Thanks for what YOU 50
kindly say with reference 10 our general
information department" OF course il IL
wolves much research and labor but his
is wha. The GAZETTE IS paying Is to per-
form. But we mus. say that it IS passing
strange that so many people will write rs
in violation OF our rules So far rs relates 10
the oft-repeated fact that we must know
who our cores pondcnts are. And the ler-
ters of this character they still come pour
ing in-many of them on subjects OF decided
general interest. We attend 10 every letter
sent Us, provided we are informed Is to who
the sender Is, hence, when persons ind
their favors neglected i; would be well for
them 10 think over whether or not they
gave us their real name and address \
very large per cent of the letters received
are answered directly through the mails
how could we reply 20 q letter TO be so an
swered unless we knew who the cores pond
ent was? In printing letters we'd always
much prefer giving the real names, still,
We'll print with this favor denied Us, pro-
vided we know who the writer IS. Some Of
our CORES pondentS have hit upon q new
dodge which is no kind Of improvement on
the old plan. They sign a nom de plume
and then cut off the corner of the sheet;
they give mere initials for our reference.
What are those initials worth to US! One
of the best letters received by us this week
was from lady, and put up on this plan.
If she reads this she will understand why
her letter has been laid over, with many
regrets.