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Show MILLIONS FOR RARE FLOWERS NEW YORK, April 22.-New Y'oikers jpend more money for flowers and elaborate elab-orate designs than any other of Anieri-cj;i"e Anieri-cj;i"e buyers, and the combined profits of Us florists are said to amount to $4,000.-There $4,000.-There are 20,000 florists in the United Unit-ed States and an estimate of the money Spent each year for cultivated flowers ii $100,000,000. a sum etjual to one-fifth he value of all the coal mines last year r one-fourth the surplus in the national banks of the country, and almost equal to Ilie net earnings of those banks. The citizens of Newport, Clneinnati nd .t. Louis pay 11.000.000. and $?.o00.-O'O $?.o00.-O'O is spent annuallv In Boston, Chicago. I'hiladelphia and TittalmrK. The popular flowers in the wealthy omes of Fifth nvenue. and the vicinity ire, first, roses, then carnations, of which thousands are used every day for dinner table dee.onitlons, chrysanthemums chrysan-themums and lolets. The great popular popu-lar tvpes. however, are pansies and Keia-niumV Keia-niumV rind in these first warm days of 'prin the window gardens of the tcr.e-tn-nts blaze with their rich hues. A thousand iwn Kre constantly em-!o em-!o e.l in protlufini; roses for the New nv'k market, and Uie tost of transport -'it: them from the f;wr.is to the city n iounts to nu.ve than $50,000 in the nurse of a year. |