Decbmbcu 22, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



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HERE ARE CENSUS FIGURES 



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NEW CENSUS FIGUBES OUT. 



Greenhouse Establishments. 



With total sales in 1919 of nearly 

 $100,000,000, the nursery and green- 

 house business in the United States is 

 to be listed among the important in- 

 dustries of the country, according to 

 figures made public this week by the 

 census bureau, embodying the results 

 of the census of 1919. 



The canvass of the industry developed 

 that there were 17,199 greenhouse estab- 

 lishments in the United States Janu- 

 ary 1, 1920, having a total of 162,368,593 

 square feet under glass, and 4,049 

 Hursory farms or establishments with 

 51,453 acres of land actually in use. 



The total sales of greenhouse products 



during 1919 aggregated $77,380,230. 

 Eighty per cent of this, or $61,892,352, 

 was from the sale of flowers and flower- 

 ing plants, and $15,487,878, the remain- 

 ing twenty per cent, from the sale of 

 vegetables and vegetable plants. This 

 figured out, according to the census 

 bureau, as an average of $4,499 in sales 

 for each establishment reporting, or 48 

 cents for each square foot under glass. 

 The total under glass included not only 

 the area in greenhouses or hothouses, 

 but the area under glass in coldframes, 

 as well. 



The receipts from the sale of nursery 

 products totaled $20,434,389 during the 

 year, an average of $5,047 for each farm 

 or establishment reporting, or $397 per 

 acre. The average land in use by each 

 establishment was 12.7 acres. 



The three middle Atlantic states led 

 with the number of greenhouses report- 

 ing, but the five east north central 

 states led both in the footage under 

 glass and the total of sales. The great- 

 est total of sales from any state was 

 $9,978,606 r(>i)orted by Illinois. Five 

 other states, however, had sales exceed- 

 ing $5,000,000, as follows: New York, 

 $8,689,325; Pennsylvania, $8,227,124; 

 Ohio, $7,052,560; Massachusetts, $5,536,- 

 532, and New Jersey, $5,064,686. These 

 six states reported 57.6 per cent of the 

 total receipts from the sale of gree»- 

 house products. 



The report also shows that 53.7 per 

 cent of the total area under glass when 

 the census was taken, January 1, 

 1920, was reported in the following five 

 states: Illinois, 19,626,091 square feet; 



NURSERY AND GREENHOUSE PRODUCTS, BY 



NURSEBIES. 



Number 

 report - 



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UNITED STATES 4,049 



Geographic Divisions; 



New England 221 



Middle Atlantic 621 



East North Central 740 



West North Central 602 



South Atlantic 465 



East' South Central 241 



West South Central 351 



Mountain 124 



Pacilc 684 



New England: 



Maine 18 



New Hampshire 12 



Vermont 5 



Massachusetts 107 



Rhode Island 21 



Connecticut 5a 



Middle Atlantic: 



New York 359 



New Jersey Ifll 



Pennsylvania 161 



East North Central: 



Ohio 168 



Indiana 123 



Illinois • ■ ■ ISf* 



Michigan 170 



Wisconsin 124 



West North Central: 



Minnesota 132 



Iowa 194 



Missouri 139 



North Dakota 16 



South Dakota 10 



Nebraska 30 



Kansas 81 



South Atlantic: 



Delaware 20 



Maryland 53 



District of Columbia 1 



Virginia ^7 



West Virginia >>■> 



North Carolina 62 



South Carolina 18 



Georgia 104 



Florida 127 



East South Central: 



Kentucky ^ < 



Tennessee 109 



Alabama ^8 



Mississippi 37 



West South Central: 



Arkansas "? 



I.o\iisiana 35 



Oklahoma 76 



Texas 181 



Mountain; 



Montana 23 



Idaho 26 



Wyoming * 



Colorado ^* 



New Mexico ° 



Arizona }j 



Utah 15 



Nevada 1 



Pacific: 



Washington 2| 



Oregon ."S 



^California 8*0 



DIVISIONS AND STATES: CENSUS OF 1919. 



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Receipts from sales during 1919. 



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