WHOLESALE VALUE OF FLORICULTURE SALES, 1998-1999   

                         Virginia	 United States 1/	
	

 Types	                  1998*	        1999	   1998*	  1999		
                          -thousand dollars-       -thousand dollars-	
		

 Growers With $100,000+  						
   Cut Flowers		       947      885	  411,595	  425,958		
   Cultivated Greens	        27        0	  117,689	  127,260		
   Potted Flowering Plants  20,656    24,087	  736,837	  764,983		
   Foliage Plants	     1,701     1,525	  502,501	  509,243		
   Bedding/Garden Plant	    39,629    41,534	1,872,610	1,946,652		
						
 Total			    62,960    68,031	3,641,232	3,774,096		
						
Total All Growers 2/	    68,960    73,431	3,947,517	4,092,411		

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 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.
*Revised.





	WHOLESALE VALUE OF FLORICULTURE SALES AND 
     PERCENT OF TOTAL SALES, TOP TWENTY STATE, 1999

 State	        Wholesale Value of Sales   Percent of Sales	
			-thousand dollars-

 California			795,800	       19%
 Florida			671,207	       16%
 Texas				235,760		5%
 Michigan			231,945		5%
 Ohio				167,804		4%
 New York			160,053		3%
 Pennsylvania			158,156		3%
 North Carolina			132,730		3%
 New Jersey			127,432		3%
 Washington			102,210		2%
 Illinois			93,562		2%
 Oregon				89,144		2%
 Alabama			80,617		2%
 Massachusettes			76,059		2%
 Colorado			74,756		2%
 Virginia			73,431		2%	
 Minnesota			70,081		2%
 Connecticut			67,945		2%
 Georgia			66,169		2%
 Wisconsin			65,325		2%
				
 United States		4,092,411