PALM SUNDAY AT NICE. 



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sides these, twigs of Box and of Laurel in ^\| 



bloom were offered for sale. In the poorer 



quarters of the town Laurel and Box pre 



dominated, with the evergreen 



The Laurel (Fig. 251) fetches 



a higher price if its branches 



bear fruit as well as blossom. 



The clusters of its small 



yellowish flowers are less 



striking than the oval 



berries which are the 



size of an Olive and 



almost black. It is 



these latter, therefore, 



that form the chief ornament 



of the twigs offered for sale. 



But as the fruits ripen in 



autumn it requires special 



care to keep them on the 



tree until spring. 



It was beginning to get 



ver)' hot in Nice on that 



Palm Sunday and I decided 



to seek a cooler spot in one 



of those valleys in the mountains 



which can now be so easil}" reached 



de France railway. I chose the 



Var, but found it hardly any cooler 



the sea shore. Still it was so beautilully 



romantic that I did not regret rhy 



by the Sud 

 Gorge of the 

 than down b-\' 



wild and 



choice. 



