. The Pharmaceutical era. My home business has never been reasonably remuner-ative. During the last fifteen years I have sold spe-cialties to most of the druggists within twenty-five milesof me. A majority of these seldom buy more than tengallons at once. The advocates of the tax are the bigfish. who wish to devour the smaller ones. JACOB B. BARTON, 51. D. and Pharmacist. 602 THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA. [April !!», 18!t7. {Spfciat Corretpondtnct,^ THE LAND OF Afteraooa at Orasse. Grasse, France, Fcli. L!S.—King Carnival asserts hisnoisy sway to-day all iilou); the Riviera, but I wanted
. The Pharmaceutical era. My home business has never been reasonably remuner-ative. During the last fifteen years I have sold spe-cialties to most of the druggists within twenty-five milesof me. A majority of these seldom buy more than tengallons at once. The advocates of the tax are the bigfish. who wish to devour the smaller ones. JACOB B. BARTON, 51. D. and Pharmacist. 602 THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA. [April !!», 18!t7. {Spfciat Corretpondtnct,^ THE LAND OF Afteraooa at Orasse. Grasse, France, Fcli. L!S.—King Carnival asserts hisnoisy sway to-day all iilou); the Riviera, but I wanted aquiet Sunday. Go to Grasse, advised a friend atCannes, and in forty minutes you will be far from themadiliug crowd. And if you have nothing to do thisSaturday afternoon, couie with me and visit one of theperfume factories there. An hour later, as the little train jogged its way leisure-ly up the steep twelve miles that separate the two towns,my >iii!]|>:ii:ii>n iinintoil out tlio pnsilir)ii nf the. tr:.. View Of Grasse. town, which is the principal center of the raw perfum-ery trade of Europe. The mountains in the North pro-tect from the cold winds the sloping land that stretchesseaward. .Tnd the southern aspect and Mediterraneansunshine make this spot particularly suitable for flowercultivation. We could see numerous plots of jasmine,laid out in rows divided by trenches, but now withered;and occasionally violets were visible clustering under theolive groves—they cannot stand the full glare of the as a rule, the floral world is conspicuous principallyby the absence of its chief ornamenls. Every flower ispicked and sold, I was told; the very wild flowers formprojectiles for the Battle of Flowers. The town itself is quaint and picturesque, with steepand narrow streets that were evidently planned in medie-val days. We Cannes folk say that the Grasse peopleexport their perfumes, but keep all their evil smells forhome consumption. remarked G., as we
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