FLORICULTURE

Sales represent both retail and wholesale quantities sold in the calendar year shown. Flowers, plants, or materials purchased from others for immediate resale are excluded. Potted flowering plants and foliage plants purchased but held less than four weeks are excluded. All data for cut flower, total foliage for indoor or patio use, and potted flowering crops are on a "gross wholesale" basis, before deductions for sales commissions or transportation costs. Value of sales at wholesale is an equivalent value calculated by applying the average wholesale price to total sales.

FLORICULTURE: Growers, growing area and wholesale value of sales, Illinois and U.S., 1995-96
     Illinois United States
Item 1995 1996 1995 1996
Number of growers 1/ 276 244 10,158 9,765
Expanded wholesale value 1/ (thousand dollars) 70,506 68,456 3,328,632 3,421,083
Total covered area 1/ (thousand square feet) 9,635 9,602 843,738 842,480
Open ground (acres) 1/ 345 276 29,727 31,100
    Thousand dollars
Cut flowers 1,967 1,643 423,630 446,500
Potted flowering plants 22,413 19,553 681,107 686,191
  African violets 2/ 2/ 25,086 23,131
  Azaleas 2,585 2,316 57,770 47,261
  Chrysanthemums 4,325 3,627 92,219 85,531
  Cyclamens 601 447 15,145 16,877
  Kalanchoes 963 797 11,832 13,881
  Easter lilies 1,616 1,527 36,925 38,126
  Other lilies 2/ 3/ 7,895 3/
  Poinsettias 7,803 7,279 211,437 214,112
  Orchids 3/ 2/ 3/ 42,720
  All other potted flowering plants 3,708 2,468 222,798 204,552
Foliage plants 2,691 1,593 498,969 507,897
Bedding/garden plants 35,575 38,557 1,356,967 1,412,955
  Geraniums (flats) 1,052 718 35,859 42,381
   Impatiens (flats) 2,126 2,888 107,014 108,050
  New Guinea (flats) 2/ 2/ 9,601 8,116
  Petunias (flats) 1,782 1,748 77,487 77,860
  Other flowering and foliar type (flats) 6,900 7,299 394,419 411,298
  Vegetable type (flats) 1,513 1,467 74,676 79,936
  Potted hardy/garden chrysanthemums 3,466 2,770 65,001 68,510
  Potted geraniums (cuttings) 4,790 3,464 103,569 93,035
  Potted geraniums (seed) 2/ 2/ 42,035 39,205
  Other potted flowering and foliar type 4,074 7,712 221,883 236,046
  Potted impatiens 2/ 2/ 17,585 17,118
  Potted new guinea impatiens 812 865 18,003 21,069
  Potted petunias 2/ 2/ 9,030 10,763
  Potted vegetable type bedding plants 2/ 2/ 16,596 22,182
  Geraniums hanging baskets 919 1,407 25,407 30,775
  Impatiens hanging baskets 589 778 19,163 21,484
  New guinea impatiens hanging baskets 637 1,164 23,014 26,394
  Petunias hanging baskets 228 484 7,205 8,995
  Flowering hanging baskets 2/ 2/ 89,420 89,738
Cut cultivated greens 2/ 2/ 113,124 121,015
Total wholesale value of reported crops 62,646 61,346 3,073,797 3,174,558
1/  Includes all growers with gross value of sales of $10,000 or more. Expanded wholesale value includes sales reported by growers with $100,000 or more in sales plus a calculated value for growers with sales below $100,000. All other estimates represent growers with value of sales of $100,000 or more.
2/  Not published to avoid disclosing individual operations.
3/  No data available.
Illinois Agricultural Statistics Service - 1997 Page 69


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