Production, commerce and trade in flowers

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A woman making up posies and baskets of flowers for sale. Coloured lithograph by C. Regnier after Guérard.

A flower seller offers a bunch of flowers to a young couple who are standing near her stall. Lithograph by Gustave Janet.

A flower boy at Hull Hospitals, Hull, Yorkshire. Wood engraving.

Bought of George Walker : florist, fruiterer & greengrocer : button holes, dress sprays, wreaths and crosses : families waited upon daily for orders.

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A flower seller offers a bunch of flowers to a young couple who are standing near her stall. Lithograph by Gustave Janet.

A flower boy at Hull Hospitals, Hull, Yorkshire. Wood engraving.

A woman making up posies and baskets of flowers for sale. Coloured lithograph by C. Regnier after Guérard.

Bought of George Walker : florist, fruiterer & greengrocer : button holes, dress sprays, wreaths and crosses : families waited upon daily for orders.