BRITISH TULIPS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 129, 14 July 1941, Page 3

BRITISH TULIPS

DRIVE ADOLF F.ROM HOLLAND'S TULIP FIELDS Tulip, hyacinth and iris bulbs arc to be rarer in Britain than the onion. If lie has the space for them among his vegetables, the British' gardener can have his daffodils, and bluebells; he will be unable this autumn to buy one tulip or hyacinth or an iris of the Spanish or Hutch type. All of them, and there will be millions, are to lie shipper! overseas, mainly to the United States and Canada. For some! years Little Holland, which is in Lincolnshire, lias been setting up shop in friendly rivalry with her big brother across the North Sea. Even in those days Holland owed a good deal to English growers,; for it was, in England thai enthusiastic amateurs maintained their "stud farms," hybridising different varieties to produce many of the novelties developed commercially by. the Dutch growers. Today. when the Nazis are goose-step-ping among the tulip beds of Hoiland, Lincolnshire finds herself with a vast acreage of lovely flowers, This year, with the cordial assistance of Dutch refugees now in Britain, she expects to have a crop of 30,000,000 bulbs for markets which were lately largely Dutch. Among the daffodils are Helios, Firctail, and, of course, King Alfred. Outstanding tulips will be Bartigon (scarlet), Cope!and (soft lavender), Princess Elizabeth (rich rose), crimson WilJ.ia.in Pitt; and also President Hoover. Wall Street and New Orleans. They will bring to Britain hundreds of thousands of dollars to help drive the Nazis from the other lulip fields.