Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Flower Girls in Vienna. [ARTICLE]

Flower Girls in Vienna.

The thirty flower girls who recently invaded the upper house of tho Austrian rlchsrath to protest against the measures to be taken to suppress the trade of hawking flowers in the streets represented a numerous class. The flower trade of Vienna nearly rivals that of Paris, and the large dealers felt that they aad cause for complaint when a well-arranged bouquet of roses was offered on the street for one-sixth the price asked in the shops. Great quantities of flowers, it is said, have been brought to Vienna from Nice and sold at an extremely low figure to the hawkers, that they may undersell 'the regular florists." The tears %nd entreaties of the girls have secured a postponement of official action until the autumn, so that the flower sellers, whose-business is carried on in somq families from one generation to another, will reap the benefit of their most profitable season.