. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i9l3- The America n Fl oris t. 329 of a value I"" groat even In estimale. A dozen or fifteen hours after these blooms mi e actuallj grow Ing In the pvarm sunny corners about Ollioules, Hyeres, or Antlbes on the shores of the Mediterranean are to be found for sal i the side walk stalls oppo- site the Madeleine and 11 > • - Palate de Justice at much lower prices than those of Broadway or Piccadilly. Uphonse Karr, the ecrivaln-jardln- ier, was a great admirer of the flora Bta llatlon Is \ ery crude and a
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i9l3- The America n Fl oris t. 329 of a value I"" groat even In estimale. A dozen or fifteen hours after these blooms mi e actuallj grow Ing In the pvarm sunny corners about Ollioules, Hyeres, or Antlbes on the shores of the Mediterranean are to be found for sal i the side walk stalls oppo- site the Madeleine and 11 > • - Palate de Justice at much lower prices than those of Broadway or Piccadilly. Uphonse Karr, the ecrivaln-jardln- ier, was a great admirer of the flora Bta llatlon Is \ ery crude and a Itogel hi i Insufficient and Inconvenient ii all points of view, I>nt recent aglti promises to remi dy a u this. The How i i market is held In a vast open space which separates several of the ten pavilions of the general markets, or halles, under the shadow of the Egllse de St. Eustache just I. oi the Quartier de la Hours.'. In this cold passage, open in winter to all the winds thai blow, almost from. FLOWER MARKETS OF PARIS. Quai Au\ Fi' mi-. of Mediterranean France, and to ac- quaint the great Paris public with its variety and charm he'sought, some- thing like forty years ago. by every possible means to bring it to public attention, with the result that it was not long before bouquets of violets and roses of Nice and Hyeres were articles of current consumption in all the faubourgs. The growth of the in- dustry since the dilletante days of the author of "Guepes" has been of a "magnitude undreamed of by that flow- er lover. From Karr's celebrated and picturesque Maison Close at St. Raphael—still a stock sight for tour- ists passing that way—the author first set the machinery in motion which gave a new employment to thousands of residents of Maritime Provence. And who shall say. after this, that poets are not practical.' Whether the Sowers come from the environs of Paris or from a distance, upon enter- ing the capital they all converge upon the Hal
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