| Show flowers at eight times their weight in gold TIB rho out flower busi ceso kit iother laue I 1 wage of it horti horticulture culture ture la is perhaps greater i in a the lie united states than in any other putt part of the tha world certainly the use or cat flowers in now new york for bouquets baskets and ad other designs ns is ij fir ar greater grantor than io in ither either or paris paria anil and the taste shown in their arrangement here is vastly superior tt it is os es kinuta 1 that three millions milli oca of 0 dollars were paid for or out cut flowers in now new york in ill 1880 one third of which was for ros rosalinde olinde immense glass are created in the for the ope oil cid purpose ol of growing ent cut flowene to supply the banquet makers maken of 0 the city not jess than twenty acres acrea of glass alasi surface is devoted to lo the purpose of forcing roses alone during daring the lie winter men months the at some boma the tha prices paid for or these them forced rose rosebudd bude are perfectly astounding one oce grower of 0 Maili le dison aoa now new jersey took into now new york three abree hundred buds buda of the abo crinson crinion rose lose known ism an 11 general not for or which le he received at wholesale three hundred dollars and which no ao doubt were retailed at a dollar and fifty cents cent to two dollars each A flower dealer in fourteenth street a few days before christmas Chris tinaa received reee ired the on only ly four of this same baroo variety of roso rage that were offered in the city and found 11 customer tor for them at sixty dollars or fifteen filbec d dollars 01 a 11 piece or eight times the value of their air we weight in ID gold apo peter I 1 or henderson enderson II in 11 practical floriculture feul ture scribner |
