HITLER'S GIFT
U.S.A. MARKET OF 40,000,000 FLOWER BULBS Hitler is providing a generous dietary to one considerabSe section of Holland's living things. Dutch cattle ore growing fat op tulip bulbs. . The Nazis have wiped''out Holland's fields ot' daffodils, hyacinths and tulips. There is a ban on aJT bulb -growing, so Dutch stocks are now being-destroyed or used up for cattle feed. The cattle like tulip bulbs best. The result is that England has just offered U.S.A. 40,000,000 Eng-lish-grown daflodil, tulip and hyacinth bulbs for £250,000. Little Holland, in Lincolnshire,, has already got 6000 acres of bulbs: for some years now the Dutch growers themselves have come to England for the costlier specimens. The British Ministry of Agriculture had ruled that not more than three-quarters of last year's bulb acreage - should be sown, but the order will probably be cancelled as flower bulbs to-day are mpre valuable to England than cabbages. 'Roosevelt, a great flower -lover, has a magnificent display of bulb flowers at Hyde Park, his New York home. His favourite is the tulip, with daffodils second.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 214, 18 September 1940, Page 8
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177HITLER'S GIFT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 214, 18 September 1940, Page 8
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