CENTENARY OF MIMOSA
CELEBRATION AT CANNES. Cannes is celebrating the centenary of mimosa, of which the first seeds planted beside the blue Mediterranean were brought to France by a sea captain from San Domingo. From one of the seeds he planted a mimosa tree grew measuring fifty feet across. Attracted by its sweet scent, perfumers of the Riviera decided on its cultivation. It was a horticulturist of Cannes, one Jacques Bon, who found out the way to treat the mimosa. Later the mimosa was favoured for its blossoms alone.
Mimosa needs a stony, permeable soil, which the Esterel provided and proved ideal for its cultivation. At present the region of Cannes counts 215,000 mimosas, .and 2500 to 4800 tons of parcels of cut flowers are sent annually from Cannes, Cannes-la-Bocca and Mandelieu-la-Napoule to Paris, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Strassburg and Berne.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1939, Page 3
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