Show BLOSS BLOSSOMS FOR THE POOR every new now york tenement HM has its it flown vote york san if the c esus takers bid bad been in instructed ted to enumerate the flower p 1 U S in in bah residence instead of WA wiling 5 tag their time over questions ns wi it sicil and financial ani they would have ob tamed in in new york at lea least 1 st ata sta tit titi that would have attonis astonished hed and interested all who delight in in knowledge of the extent exten tto to which lovegr the beautiful lias has spread aspre atutis ag the people in lu recent 3 ears 14 no 0 one whose attention has nut out b been especially to it is IN apt I 1 t realize to that am ai extent new york people have become lovess loves and anti ondera of 0 fewers Fits hion and the de desire aire tor for di duplay play may rudy ac count for the conservatory that if is now a ne ceary part to every rich mans hauie not only in in the sub arbs but in lu this city but bothin nothing 9 but genuine lovo love for flowers for their own sake cau account fur for the humble but abundant flower pot on the tenement room window sill although the purchase of the tenement dwellers in in the flower line are email small for each in in the aggregate they constitute a very large trade and to meet the demand there has grown up an extensive business in in the peddling of flowers about the streets from wagons and at small stands along the curb besides this there has been an enormous dev de elopement developement in in the trade in in out cut flowers not only at the fashion able florists shops but among the ordinary and poorer classes there are flower peddlers now about the elevated stations at the ferries at the horse hone car line termini and in in little nooks and cornera corners in in all parts of the city with all 11 this development in in the demand for flowers it would be supposed ap posed that there ha hai been an increase in in the for supply but the contrary is is true fhe the fl liver market or what by courtesy has that title has been recen recently tri described in in the sun san all the city offered the merchants is aba tb dermis sion sion for a consideration to back their wagons up to the curb abut abbit it a little triangular bit of land and i in the dirtiest most ill dm smelling elling ill surrounded tur Eur and altogether wretched wr etche spot along the who whole leNorth north river river front at the wharf harf just across street is one of the largest dumps of the street cleaning department part par ment truent besides the present stand is is far too email small inconvenient in in its arrangements an obstruction to ordinary traffic in in the neighborhood bo and a bad place for both market men and customers to get to only one ferry runs anywhere dean iv it and that accommodates only a small percentage of the jersey florists the termini of low long leland island and west chester routes are cut off from froin it by the who whole le width of the city at its widest point of course course in such a locality and amid such surrounding surround inga the flower market is solely a wholesale affair r no one wishing to buy less than a wagon load of flowers would ever venture into such an uncouth out landish and disagreeable neighborhood to look for them there is is no effort to make the market anything but a place where wholesalers and retailers meet swap awal and then skip as quickly as po possible abroad the flower market is is one odthe of the chief local attractions of large cities and sofij baye have become famous the world over the trade trade even now in in new york is is edly larger in in proportion to lation than in in any other city in in the world and it would be bously in increased creamed had it the facilities that it has bas in in other cities the flower market might be one of the finest sights in in new york if prop erly located but at present one in may a more enjoyably not to say coul comfortably g stably pass his time in in gazing at the iridescent porgy and the ruddy lobster in in fulton market or enil Ting the savory odors of onions onions and old sold cheese in in washington market than in in looking for any ching worth seeing about the dirty little triangle opposite the garbage dump at the foot of canal street |