Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1915 — Flower City of Germany. [ARTICLE]

Flower City of Germany.

The marked industrial developments in Erfurt are of comparatively recent date, and in spite of the increasing Importance of its manufacturing establishments the city is still best known for the immense horticultural establishments found there. Erfurt is appropriately called the “Blumenstadt” or Flower City of Germany. AK most 3 per cent of the population is engaged in commercial horticulture. While vegetables and flowers for sale are grown ofi a large scale, of much vaster proportions is the business in flower and vegetable seed. The larger Erfurt seed firms ship to almost all parts of the world, the United States importing larger quantities of Erfurt horticultural products than from any other city in Europe.