GEOGRflPHIGflL ^EE^ 

 ^EEEEE GONGENTRflTION, 



Historic Feature ot 



flmerican floriculture. 



BY 



JOHN HYDR, 



Expert Special Agent, Statistics of Agriculture, Eleventh U. S. Census, Fellow of 

 the Royal Statistical Society of London and of the American Statistical Asso- 

 ciation, Member of the Council of the National Geographic Society, 

 Honorary Corresponding Member of the State Historical 

 Society of Wisconsin and of the Society of Alaskan 

 Natural History and Ethnology, etc. 



PREPARED, BY INVITATION, FOR THE 

 FIFTH BIENNIAL SESSION 



OF THE 



INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE, 



CHICAGO, 1893. 



PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 



KENSINGTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, 

 WASHINGTON, D. C. 



