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Historic Feature of 



American floriculture. 



BY 



JOHN iHYDE., 



Li*' ' """ * 



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 or 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, FOH THE 



FIFTH BIENNIAL SESSION 



OF THE 



INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE, 



CHICAGO, 1893. 



PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 



KENSINGTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, 

 WASHINGTON, D. C. 



