Identifier: reviewofreviewsw40newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Ospedaletti, will, however, stand us in good stead while San Stcfano, Taggia, and Coldirodi, may be we follow the writer who in jthe Niiova An- designated as the most important centers of tolo^ia (Rome) tells us something about the industry. During its precarious early ** The Flower Industry of the Ligurian life, when there was a great deal to be done Coast Line. for Gustavo Vagliasindi.—the in the way of clearing, stoning, leveling, head of San Remos traveling body of irrigating, the floriculture of this district was lecturers on agriculture,—here discourses carried on in a somewhat haphazard and mainly on activities in the San Remo district, primitive fashion, and with uncertain profits, the hub of this industn,, although he also But in recent years the whole process of mentions facts showing that along the east planting, training, picking, transporting, and coast great and rapid progress is being made, selling has been thoroughly methodized. 742 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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THE RIVIERA FLOWER MARKET.(Waitlne for the signal to begin selling.) Now, under official auspices and regulation,daily markets are held at the above centers,and in the opinion of the author said mar-kets form the most interesting and originalexpression of the peculiar local industrywhich he speaks about in the pages of theNuova Antologia. The flowers are gathered the night before orvery early in the morning; they are bunched inmasses and placed for the night or the fewhours remaining before the market time withtheir stems in vessels of water. They are thenarranged by varieties, and properly trimmed. Inbouquets of dozens or hundreds the cut flowersare laid lengthwise in oval baskets, or in starformation in round baskets, according as thestems are long or short. Carried by a hasteninglot of wagonets, omnibus coaches, chaises, andother vehicles of every date and shape, and onthe heads of scurrying men and women, the bas-kets, covered with newspapers or cloth, arriveat the markets. These

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