Show I CENSUS OF Florists Will Be Asked to Hake Full j Returns Washington Jan 17 Owing to the unusual intelligence of florists as a l class and the fact that the statistics of their business which the census of office flee fice requires require rete almost entirely to the year 1899 a plan has imas been formed form d for fr taking an early census of floriculture ture by mail on special schedules schedules and to tabulate and a publish the he returns thereof early while other branches of the great work ark of enumeration are in progress There are approximately florists florIst 1 in the United States The names and andI I addresses of a majority of them have been secured and classified by the i ston of agriculture in the census office and each known proprietor will soon j receive a copy of the special schedule devoted to this interest It will be ac accompanied companied by a list so far as ascer tamed of all the florists fn In his section i 1 to be by him corrected added to and returned to the department for use In making the record complete and Tell roti I able This Thie special schedule is not elaborate or complicated It may be filled out easily and quickly by any florist who keeps keepe a reasonably accurate run of his business It asks anita for the ISOO acre acreage acreage age devoted to floriculture and of Oath each crop or variety of plants and flowers the total area in square feet under I glass and the area of each crop or va variety of flower floer or plant raised there under the number of persons employed and the total wages paid to them the amount expended for catalogues post postage postage age and fertilizers respectively anti and I the gross receipts from the sales in each subdivision of the business No private individuals will be per permitted to have access to the schedules after they have been tilled filled out and aad re reI j I turned nor will the names of persons or firms giving Information be pub nub published In n the census report Figures only will be used and published and the entire process and record of gath gathering gathering ering information will be confidential As the law requires the regular enu enumerators enumerators to obtain certain information S as tenure value etc during their UP its in June the next census of lieu flori floriculture culture if the florists themselves shall be prompt and conscientious in filling out and returning the special schedules soon to be sent to them will be the most perfect in history They will be put to no expense as the necessary stationery with en envelopes properly franked will be pro provided provided vided for their use |