The growing of violets has be- 

 come a great industry, and is no- 

 where more successfully operated 

 than around the city of Potsdam, 

 near Berlin, where there are more 

 palaces to the square mile than in 

 any other city in the world. In 

 fact, only the very ornamental and 

 the intensely practical exist in this 

 ancient Wendish town, whose his- 

 tory goes back almost to the begin- 

 ning of things. The ornamental is 

 represented by the Old Palace, Sans 

 Souci, the New Palace, the Marble 

 Palace, Babelsburg, and half-a-dozen 

 others, while the practical takes the 

 form of miles of market-gardens and 

 violet farms. 



Very many violets are grown near 

 Nice in France to be made into es- 

 sence. The beds, which are laid out 

 in gardens and shaded by orange and 

 lemon trees, draw from the fragrant 

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