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Show Jruwlh of I lorlculture, Oneot tho Induitrlra that hare grown to large dimentlon In ihb country tlnco tho war It floriculture. The centua bsnau luu Included tldt with Ilia other branchct of Indnttry about which It gatbcml ttatbtlct, and among tttpnb-lldiad tttpnb-lldiad figure we find toiue tntorcatlng facta. For mora than a century floriculture haabeea punuod M an occupation In America, but It norcr auutaed any groat propottlon till within the paalqaarttr century Perbat th eetablitlimeut of Arbor Dtyt and DMoratlon Diy luvl ornithine to Jo with It growtli. At any rale there are now In the country 4 tol) fiurienllural ealablUbrntnti, and over half of them bar been itarted in the but twenty yean, neatly S.OU0ln th laat decade. With the tight of the treAiurc nature gave to tnako the worl 1 bevitiful, the taate for tbem growt, j Ihrreli oonitanlly more anl mora demand. de-mand. UUct, tnonballt, th allrr UoMom an 1 other flowering ihrubt which thirty )rari ago nobody valued at all, they wcr aocommou, are nowcarvfully gath ervd and dlipoted of, an 1 reiJeacut high rouuuuTlaltalue, Bo much, Indeed, are tlm oil faahloued Illart cf our grand, mothcre In demand that they are forced Inlwthoutee, and lu early iprlng anl lale winter briiy uarreloui jirlcet, H.) lib with th tweet acented violet aul the carnation. I-arcuder, however, ap-tan ap-tan for aomo rvaaon to lave gun out cf fathlon. If Ui acre underglaat devoted to raiting rait-ing greenhonae anl hotliouae flowort were to be, laced all together they woul I cover nearly a tquaro mile anl a half of grounb Of the llorlcolturul eatabllah-menta eatabllah-menta mtnliooi'd, 013 are wholly owned and managed by womeu, who get their living out of them. Here tociui a bual-neat bual-neat peculUrly fitted to women. All 1 It U full of health and recreation to etery one who pnrauea II In tho right way llut notwdy except a lover of Ouwtri thoull cogag u it. |