California, Flower Trade, 1999

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"Until the past decade cut-flower production worldwide has been carried on mostly as family business, the same farms cultivating the same flowers for generations. But Americans alone spend nearly 15 billion [U.S.] dollars a year on flowers and plants—about four times more than one generation ago—at 30,000 florists and 23,000 supermarkets. For the first time, flower trading has become a colossal global concern given to cutthroat competition and political battles. Flower buying by consumers has even come to involve faceless corporations where business is done over the internet."

—From "Flower Trade," April 2001, National Geographic magazine

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