. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 1183 THE VIOLET. Hyeres, The Home of the Violets. Hyeres-les-Palmiers, as the charming- little tourist city ol Southern France is most widely Icnown, may well be said to bo the cradle of the open air violet culture in France. Only with Vence and Tourettes in the Alpes-Mari- times. in the valley of the Loup, back of Nice, is there any considerable com- petition, and there the varieties com- monly known as Victoria and Princesse de Galles can hardly be said to com- pete with those of Hyer
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 1183 THE VIOLET. Hyeres, The Home of the Violets. Hyeres-les-Palmiers, as the charming- little tourist city ol Southern France is most widely Icnown, may well be said to bo the cradle of the open air violet culture in France. Only with Vence and Tourettes in the Alpes-Mari- times. in the valley of the Loup, back of Nice, is there any considerable com- petition, and there the varieties com- monly known as Victoria and Princesse de Galles can hardly be said to com- pete with those of Hyeres, at least not in the quantity shipped nor with re- spect to price, for it is the latter which is usually found on the flower stalls of Paris when the city itself is in the throes of the chills and fogs of mid- winter. Out of some eight hundred horticul- turists in the Commune of Hyeres, working three thousand irrigated acres and employing five or six thousand hands in one capacity or another, by far the largest number desote them- selves almost exclusively to the' culti- vation of the odorous Violette Hyerois. The traffic begins in the late autumn months and extends well into Febru- ary, when, in Paris and northern mar- kets, to which the product is chiefly shipped (nearly two hundred thousand postal parcels were sent off from the Gare de Hyeres during the season of 1900-10), the ruling market prices usu- ally drop so low as to be no longer remunerative. These hundreds of thou- sands of five kilo baskets of the violets of Hyeres (each containing a hundred bunches of fifty blooms each), are shipped north by fast express to Paris. London, Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne markets. Paris sells half a million francs worth in a season, November prices running from three francs 50 centimes to seven francs (70 cents to $). At Cologne, at the same pe- riod, prices are double, at Hamburg something between the two, while at Brussels they will often bring from 13 francs to 20 francs ($2.
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