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Horticulture — Nurseries. 

 Number of nurseries, 120 : acres of land, 1,891 ; value per acre, 

 1404.71; total value, $1,393,666.80; value of implements, $37,- 

 249.20; total capital invested, $1,773,500; number of men em- 

 ployed, 540 ; number of women employed, 22 ; wages paid men 

 per day, $1.63; wages paid women per day, $1.00; number of 

 horses and other animals employed, 270 ; total acreage of nursery 

 trees and plants of all ages, 655 ; apple, 54; peach, 6 ; pear, 3 ; 

 plum, 3 ; deciduous, 152 ; evergreen, 99 ; hardy shrubs, 189 ; rose, 

 2 ; grape vines, 1 ; strawberry, 94 ; raspberry, 31 ; blackberry, 18 ; 

 currant, 3 ; number of salesmen employed, 60 ; monthly wages 

 paid salesmen, $42.50 ; number of wholesale catalogues issued, 

 25,000 ; number of retail catalogues issued, 140,000 ; amount paid 

 for newspaper advertising, $11,175.60 ; amount paid for postage, 

 $8,828.40 ; amount paid for freight bills, $20,895.60 ; amount paid 

 for express bills, $8,533.20 ; estimated amount paid for freight 

 and express on outgoing shipments, $34,560. 



Floriculture. 

 Number of florists' establishments, 407 : owned and managed 

 by women, 25 ; square feet of glass reported for one establish- 

 ment, largest number, 40,000, smallest number, 400 ; total square 

 feet of glass, 2,717,946 ; area of land cultivated (acres), 467; 

 value of tools and implements used, $104,090.25; total value of 

 establishments, $2,663,587.08 ; number of men emplo^'ed, 814; 

 wages paid men per day, $1.67 ; total wages paid men, $407,814 ; 

 women employed, 64; wages paid women per day, $1.05; total 

 wages paid women, $20,160 ; number of horses employed, 305 ; 

 cost of fuel used, $101,326.72; wholesale catalogues issued, 40,- 

 700 ; retail catalogues issued, 770,044 ; paid for postage, $20,- 

 768.89; paid for advertising, $41,469.23; paid for freight, 

 $46,707.32; paid for express, $40,327.88; estimated freight and 

 express bills on outgoing shipments, $46,176 01 ; roses propa- 

 gated, 884,411; hardy plants propagated, 1,275,945; all other 

 plants propagated, 9,320,600; total plant sales, $594,053.13; 

 total cut-flower sales, $1,036,409.22; per cent of stock sold at 

 wholesale, 49 ; per cent of stock sold at retail, 51. 



Honey and Beeswax. 

 There were produced in Massachusetts in 1869, 1,195 pounds 

 of beeswax and 25,299 pounds of honey: in 1879, 2,463 pounds 

 of beeswax and 49,397 pounds of honey ; and in 1889, 1,690 

 pounds of beeswax and 90,929 pounds of honey. 



