Wholesale Value of Floriculture Sales, 1997-1998
                                  Virginia          United States /1
  Types                        1997*     1998      1997*         1998
                                        -Thousand Dollars-

  Growers With $100,000+
  Cut Flowers                   1,948    1,588      471,569      418,943
  Cultivated Greens                --       24      116,184      125,587
  Potted Flowering Plants      21,318   21,047      722,869      700,627
  Foliage Plants                3,576    2,213      499,964      503,403
  Bedding/Garden Plant         37,633   37,273    1,346,959    1,812,628

  TOTAL                        64,475   62,145    3,557,545    3,561,188

  TOTAL ALL GROWERS 2/         70,835   70,485    3,896,050    3,933,878
  * Revised. 1/ Represents growers in 36 states. 2/ Wholesale value of
  sales as reported by growers with $100,000 or more in sales of
  floriculture crops plus a calculated wholesale value of sales for
  growers with sales below $100,000. The value of sales for growers below
  the $100,000 level were estimated by multiplying the number of growers
  in each size group by the midpoint of each dollar value range.