AMERICAN NURSERY 



CENSUS OF NURSERY PRODUCTS 



A summarizing statement of the genera) 

 results of the thirteenth census relative 

 to the number of establishments and value 

 of florist and nursery products in 1909, to- 

 gether with comparable data for 1899, was 

 issued last month by Director E. Dana Dur- 

 and, of the Bureau of Census, Department 

 of Commerce and Labor. The report was 

 prepared under the direction of Le Grand 

 Powers, chief statistician, and John Lee 

 Coulter, expert special agent, for agricul- 

 ture. Further analysis of the report may 

 result in slight modifications of the totals 

 here presented before final publication, but 

 it is not expected that they will effect ma- 

 terially the figures given herein. 



Florist Products 



It shows that in 1909 there was 10,614 

 florist establishments reporting products 

 valued at $34,872,000, while in 1899 there 

 were 8,797 establishments with products 

 valued at $18,759,000; an increase of 1,817 

 establishments, or 20.7 per cent, and $16,- 

 113,000, or 85 9 per cent. 



In 1909, the value of the products of the 

 3,366 establishments reporting in the Mid- 

 del Atlantic division was $11,810,000, which 

 was one-third of the total value of products 

 in the United States. The East North Cen- 

 tral division ranked second, as shown by 

 the returns for the last two censuses, in 

 both number of establishments and value 

 of products. The absolute amount of in- 

 crease in value of products during the de- 

 cade 1900-1910 was nearly equal to that of 

 the Middle Atlantic division, its per cent, 

 of gain was 101.1 per cent., as compared 

 with 67.1 per cent, for the Middle Atlantic 

 division. The per cent, of increase was 

 largest in the West South Central division, 

 268.9 per cent. A noteworthy increase was 

 also shown in the Pacific division where 

 the value of products increased from $727,- 

 000 in 1899 to $2,176,000 in 1909, or 199.3 

 per cent. 



Nursery Products 



The total value of nursery products re- 



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