明清时期,花卉业是苏州经济结构中的重要组成部分,具有强烈的地方色彩。近代以来,由于香花茶走俏国内外市场,苏州花卉业集体转向,专注于培植用于窨制花茶的香花。此转向提高了园圃经营的集约化水平,创造了远高于水稻种植的劳动生产率。但是,这种整体转向也给花卉业自身带来诸多消极因素:首先花农不得不承受茶叶市场波动与中间商人肆意压低市场价格并获取高额佣金的双重市场风险;其次,对市场收益的片面追求,制约了花卉园艺的全面发展,不仅四季花卉在园圃中极度式微奇零,甚至芳香品质优异但不易管理的香花品种也遭到被淘汰的命运。 Ming and Qing Dynasties, the flower industry is an important part of the economic structure of Suzhou, with a strong local color. Since modern times, thanks to the popularity of fragrant flowers and tea at home and abroad, the flower industry in Suzhou turned to concentrate on cultivating the fragrant flowers used for making scented tea. This shift increased the intensiveness of garden management and created much higher labor productivity than rice cultivation. However, this overall shift has also brought many negative factors to the flower industry itself. First, flower growers have to bear the dual market risk of fluctuations in the tea market and the arbitrary lowering of market prices by intermediaries and obtaining high commission rates. Secondly, one-sided pursuit of market returns , Restricting the all-round development of flower and horticulture. Not only the four seasons flowers are extremely micro and odd in the garden, but even the fragrant and fragrant variety, which is not fragrant and fragrant, has also been eliminated.