Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-21
TEXAS IN MID-JUNE.


| of this page.
TEXAS IN MID-JUNE.
A friend who took advantage of your lib
| eral offer to give paper to a Texas sub
| scriber, with an additional copy to oe sent
outside OF the state, all at the price of one
| subscription, is kindly sending me the
| Weekly GAZETTE. must say to you that
| the excellence of the paper actually sur
prises me- l had no kind of idea that a
new and thinly settled country like Texas
could sustain such publication as the Fort
Worth GAZETTE, and cannot for the life of
me understand how you can afford so good
paper on such extremely liberal terms !;
that is, unless you own the whole state of
Texas and are expecting to soon put up
your property at auction to the highest
bidder. In such case it would be best to
let the world know all about your property
before the day of sale comes on, of course.
But 'jokeS are free in harveSt,p YOU
know, and this is harvest time with us here.
The joke lives only in my reference to your
ownership of the whole state of Texas,
however, was once a newspaper man
myself, more's the pity. But laying
all jokes aside, allow me to put it among
solid facts that THE GAZETTE gives me q
clearer idea of Texas than anything / have
before met with. 1t is like seeing Texas
through a glass, and not "a glass darkly"
at that. l well know that there is such
thing rs advertising only the bright side,
and leaving the other side over the river,
or somewhere else. but The GAZETTE
makes everything so plain, and always
gives such plausible reasons for the show
ing made that no grounds whatever are left
for doubts, or for suspicious as to sinister
motives. 1t is undoubtedly ''TeXas in
Type''-there is left open no possible open
ing for one to make anything else out of it.
7 no hoap yr,nah nlpoSod wit do
scription of Texas wild flowers and Texas
landscapes in spring, and / hope you may
continue to give us such pen-pictures of
Texas from time to time throughout the
summer and fall. As native Alabamlan
l am stuck ON Alabama, but will not deny
the fact that since reading The GAZETTE a
longing to see Texas has sprung up in my
corporosity. My family talks Texas more
than anything else, and-well, if l come
your way soon 1 will call on you at The
GAZETTE Office and tell you l am the fellow
who sent you this rambling note.
Opelika, Ala. HERE WE REST.
We make a rule of telling it just as it is,
and as nearly as possible. There exists no
need for exaggeration when we are talking
about Texas. It must be admitted that we
have said good deal to the favor of the
state, but all we have said has worked in
justice in but one way; the half has not
been told that might have been told in the
same direction.
But you desire to hear something of how
our landscapes are appearing at the present
season of the year. They are simply
splendid. Many of the early spring flowers
are gone, but as many summer flowers have
taken their places. Our floral display is
probably not quite so rich as it was few
weeks ago, but the general landscape
is even more beautiful than
earlier on the season. The tree growths
along our streams and valleys have as
sumed a darker and richer green, while the
open prairies have taken upon themselves
light greenish brown, viewed as a whole.
To give you correct idea of it, as nearly as
possible, suppose yourself out with US on
some elevated headland, taking in distant
views of the landscape. You see the tree
growths along the valleys and depressions,
as already mentioned, but these vary some
what in point of shade. Those patches of
very light green are boxelder trees. Those
patches only little darker Ia dark pea
greenl, are cottonwoods. That darker
shade here and there is made up of pecans,
and elms. Those very dark
tufts about the heads of the valleys are live
oaks. On some of the high headlands in
the far distance are belts of something still
darker than the live-oaks-these are cedars.
Out on the open prairies you see shades
varying from reddish-b brown to golden-yel-
low. These shades are impaired by wild
prairie flowers, the particular species Civ |
ing the different shades having associated |
themselves together, each after its kind, !
md thus taken possession of broad areas |
Away off yonder is an extensive patch of a |
vellowish shade, little too light to be |
,alled golden, and yonder another of the |
'ame kind, and yonder still another, and so |
IN. These are wheat fields now Just being |
Those patches of light green
ire corn fields, and those whose shade of |
.reen is little darker are cotton fields.
Those ciumps far off on the highlands, |
where you see the wind-mills, are orchards
The growths of lightest green in them are
Ie Conte or Kieffer pears; those of shade |
'nly little darker are peaches, and those
till darker are either plum or apple trees.
OF course this can convey to you but
,oor idea of the Texas landscapes at this
ime, but it is the best we can do at pres
mt. To be- fully understood and appre-
lated it must be seen. Our artists wander
# to the Old World, or to the mountain re-
ions of our own country in search of SUBJ
ects worthy of their genius as landscape
'ainters, leaving these more beautiful prai-
lie scenes in Texas entirely unstudied This
5 strange, but it will not always remain
hus. There is a peculiar beauty about our
andscapes not to be, met with elsewhere,
nd at day in no distant future some true
rtist will have discovered this fact, and
ave made himself famous by offering to