Punted along a glassy canal lined with towering Aztec cypresses and weeping willows, a red trajinera carries two passengers beneath a sky of hand-tinted turquoise in this gorgeous early color postcard of Xochimilco — the ancient "floating gardens" district south of Mexico City that has enchanted visitors since the days of the Aztec empire. Published as No. 394 in editor F. Martín's Mexico D.F. series, the card's vivid chromolithographic palette — deep teals, burnt sienna foliage, red-roofed casitas — captures the dreamy, timeless quality that made Xochimilco one of colonial Mexico's most-visited attractions. On the reverse, a sender named Fred dashes off a breezy note to a recipient named José in Rochester, New York: "A very beautiful park. Wish you could see it." Postmarked 19 January 1929 in Mexico City, the card bears a Mexican 4-centavo green stamp and carries a striking cancel-slogan promoting domestic industry: "Los Productos Nacionales Compiten Bien Con Los Importados" — "National Products Compete Well With Imports." A lovely artifact of Jazz Age travel and Mexican postal history.