| Show EASTER FLOWER BILL OF GOTHAM 1000000 r N I 1 IE one with a fondness for staB sta-B has discovered that the Bum 1 tor faster I flowers In this city rts to almost 1000000 This Pat Is based on a canvass of J hops und Is as near tho cor figure as can bo arrived at with sreat deal of time and labor be Pent on the task That society ecornlng more extravagant In i decoration every year Is tho ment mado iy ono of the florists 06 four Hundred This same f I sa > s that aside from tho ai ot f money spent at Easter Is molO money put up dally for ra Ulan over before There are nlore cxpeiiBivo ilowers In tho ins et thnn tllclJ over were before Pe M > mmy of tho COUntry gen en hereabouts with line conservn i s are constantly bringing out er and higher grades of flowers tbe matket as well as for tho ice of lal8lB them For In es Ir Mr H McK Twombly who allIIn Place nt J I Madison N I has this year brought out some very JUne J-Une orchids These orchids have been retailing for two dollars each On tho surfac It would appear that the poor would out of little pleasure bo able to get flowers at Kaster but tho truth Is out of real pleasure they get more them than tho rich In the first place them more when appreciate tho poor they get them and tho fact that they do not got them until the day after Kaster does not make them enjoy them any tho less There aro many societies here for tho special purpose of distributing flowers among the which event at and after any they poor aro used profusely tho members collect them and distribute them Institutions and tho hospitals among the poor of tho tenement house dla Thus if New York spends a trlets the Raster flowers million dollars on nnfoijunato of the city gel and poor of them tho next two thirds fully moderate of day and It Is only those means who get left |
