Table B. Reliability Estimates of Operations and Value of Sales for Selected Horticultural Specialty Items - 
United States: 2014 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Total 
Coefficient of variation 
(percent) 
TOTAL VALUE OF SALES BY SIZE 
$10,000 - $19,999 
operations 
4,203 
6.7 
$1,000 
59,489 
7.4 
$20,000 - $24,999 
operations 
1,458 
5.9 
$1,000 
32,380 
6.0 
$25,000 - $39,999 
operations 
2,796 
3.7 
$1,000 
88,385 
3.5 
$40,000 - $49,999 
operations 
1,334 
3.7 
$1,000 
59,490 
3.6 
$50,000 - $99,999 
operations 
3,709 
3.0 
$1,000 
261,655 
3.1 
$100,000 - $249,999 
operations 
3,729 
1.5 
$1,000 
586,303 
1.6 
$250,000 - $499,999 
operations 
2,098 
3.4 
$1,000 
733,822 
4.0 
$500,000 - $999,999 
operations 
1,582 
3.5 
$1,000 
1,114,059 
3.8 
$1,000,000 - $2,499,999 
operations 
1,344 
2.5 
$1,000 
2,082,590 
2.8 
$2,500,000 or more 
operations 
968 
1.6 
$1,000 
8,770,877 
1.6 
OPERATIONS BY TYPE OF CROP 
Annual bedding/garden plants 
operations 
7,964 
1.3 
$1,000 
2,567,534 
2.0 
Potted herbaceous perennial plants 
operations 
6,291 
2.5 
$1,000 
944,850 
0.8 
Potted flowering plants for indoor or patio use 
operations 
4,059 
2.2 
$1,000 
1,084,274 
1.3 
Foliage plants for indoor or patio use 
operations 
2,644 
4.8 
$1,000 
721,889 
2.3 
Cut flowers and cut lei flowers 
operations 
1,998 
2.6 
$1,000 
462,098 
5.1 
Cut cultivated greens 
operations 
728 
8.3 
$1,000 
99,040 
1.5 
Nursery stock sold (see text) 
operations 
8,226 
2.1 
$1,000 
4,266,631 
1.2 
Propagative horticultural materials, bareroot, and 
unfinished plants (see text) 
operations 
1,067 
5.5 
$1,000 
695,126 
1.3 
Sod, sprigs or plugs sold (see text) 
operations 
1,289 
4.2 
$1,000 
1,138,465 
2.8 
Dried bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers 
operations 
204 
7.9 
$1,000 
74,014 
26.3 
Food crops grown under protection 
operations 
2,521 
4.0 
$1,000 
796,664 
8.0 
Transplants for commercial vegetable and strawberry production 
operations 
693 
11.4 
$1,000 
371,817 
2.5 
Vegetable seeds 
operations 
385 
10.0 
$1,000 
135,122 
55.9 
Flower seeds 
operations 
169 
21.1 
$1,000 
31,607 
9.9 
Aquatic plants 
operations 
345 
11.2 
$1,000 
20,205 
13.6 
Cut Christmas trees sold (see text) 
operations 
3,352 
6.7 
$1,000 
366,632 
2.8 
Short rotation woody crops sold (see text) 
operations 
49 
29.4 
$1,000 
1,845 
30.7 
Tobacco transplants 
operations 
183 
9.5 
$1,000 
1 1 ,236 
19.3 
A - 8 Appendix A 
2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
