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Show The Flower Industry. If the practical business man believes that the business of flowers is an incon-idorable incon-idorable one, and that they are used chiefly by people who aro getting married mar-ried or getting out of tho world altogether, altogeth-er, let him step into a rose market in Twenty-third street some afternoon between be-tween 8 and 4 o'clock. When he reaches there first ho will fiud everything about as quiet as it well could be. By 4 o'clock, ! when the carts drive up filled with boxes of flowers shipped from out of town rose farms and flower farms, just arrived at piers and railroad depots by express, everything immediately takes on a very confused uud animated appearance. A dozen clerks and the proprietor appear simultaneously from nobody knows where, and tho boxes, containing layer upon layer of baskets tilled with all varieties va-rieties of roses, picked early that morning, morn-ing, are unpacked. In packing, the roses ure carefully placed with the first layer of stems running one w-ay, reversing the order on the next layer, and so on to the top of the basket. By this time tho room is filled with men anxious to procure tho first pick and the choicest variety, and they bargain as closely, with as total an oblivion to all their fragrance and beauty, as if the goods were the most ordinary cloth or cotton. New York World. |