VERIFIED HISTORICAL CLAIM

Fragrance around a flower market, in an 1884 travel book

In his 1884 travel book Travels in Mexico and Life Among the Mexicans, Frederick A. Ober writes that the air around the flower market on the western side of the Plaza Mayor in Mexico was delightfully fragrant.

Scope

One traveller's impression of a single market, published in 1884; it records what he noticed then, not how flower markets smell today.

How this was found

Historical text. A published historical text, read on a digitised page; it records what was written when it was published.

Source: historical record · printed book.

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Historical passage checked

Travels in Mexico and Life Among the Mexicans, p. 331 Printed page 331 is image 339 of the digitised volume.Published 1884, the latest time it can describe; not the present. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes. Checked 2026-10-19.