Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-07-11
rHE FLOWER BUSINESS.

industry was made n subject of special
investigation by the last census. In
fact, it is only within recent years that
it has assumed proportions in this coun-
try justifying such systematic inquiry.
Nearly two-thirds of the 1850 estab-
ishments in existence, says the New
York Sun, when the census was taken
were started during the last twenty
years, and more than one-third during
the last ten years. Four-fifthS of the
whole business of the commercial flor
lists has been developed within twenty
five years.
The census report shows that the
whole number of acres covered with
glass was nearly 900. More than $685.
OOo, 600 were invested in the fixtures and
heating apparatus. Nearly 1900 men
and 1900 women were employed in the
cultivation and its attendant industries,
and the total value of plants and shrubs
produced was more than S12, ,000, 900, and
OF cut flowers more than S14,00O,00O.
So far as the public, taste is indicated
by the purchases the rose is unquestion-
ably the favoritc popular flower. One
firm alone reported the sale of million
of the plants in 1889. The plants are
grown in very small pots, which are
sent by post throughout the union. Of
cut flowers, next to the rose and closely
following it, carnations are mostly in
demand, the two together furnishing
nearly two-thirds of the receipts from
sales. Then come violcts,. .chrysanthc-
NUNS, lilies hyacinths, hcliotropcs,
panSies, tulips and few others, MAX
ing up one-quarter of the total value.
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furnished by the demand for orchids,
tubcroses, ml8nOnette, camcllias and
the rest. The majority of the reports
describe roses. as the most profitable
product, with carnations second and
violcts third. OF the Towering plants
sold in the northern and eastern states
geraniums are most in demand. In the
south they como after roses and chrys-
anthemums and in California after
these two and carnations also.
1 The greatest centers for the propaga-
ton of roses are in Pennsylvania, Illi-
nois and Ohio and of hardy plants in
Illinois, New York and Kansas. The
sales of cut flowers are largest in total
value in New York, Illinois and Penn
sylvania, the states where the greatest
cities and the largest wealth are. Pro-
: portionatcly to it's size New Jersey does
the largest business in cut flowers, and
for the obvious reason of it's nearness to
: New York, the greatest market It's
sales of cut flowers amounted in value
to hcarly $1,000. 600. .-....... .-..
Plants are tho speciality of some for
lists and cut flowers of others and some
supply both, selling most of their
! product by wholesale. Others, again,
devote themselves TO carnations or vio-
let's, their business also, where it is
large, being almost entirely wholesale.
The increase in the demand is steady
and it extends all over the union. 1t h
! the result Of the growth, of house deco
! ration, of the spreading taste and desire
/ for the bcaptlfying of private grounds,
: of greater and more general love for
flowers among rich and poor and the
decrease in prices because Of the in
crease in production.
| A RESIDENT of Searsport, Me-, lately
! discovered a peculiar phenomenon on
the beach. Large quantities of clans
had been forced out Of the sand and
were lying in piles in the clefts of the
: rocks on NJosman's ledge. He hauled
away more than scventy-fve bushels.
T. FL. PUBLEN, of Milford, Ga, placed
1, note in bale of cotton which he
/; made, requesting the purchaser to in
form him where il was bought. He re-
Gently received letter from manu-
facturer in Moscow, Russia, stating
that the cotton had been sold there and
purchased by him. ll.r.a.. -.
i AT a pigeon shoot near Newark, N. j.,
recently, a'pointer dog owned by a resi-
dent of Harrisburg, Pa, caught n
wounded bird by springinS into the air
after it, The bird was six feet above the
ground when the dogs jaws closed on
Il, and the old trap shooters entered in
tho sweepstalSe shoots said thatsft was
the finest catch ever seen, sep----.