BRITISH TULIPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1941, Page 6

BRITISH TULIPS

BIG SHIPMENTS TO AMERICA. HELPING TO DRIVE HITLER FROM HOLLAND. Tulip. hyacinth and iris bulbs are to be rarer in Britain than the onion. If he has the space for them among his vegetables, the British gardener can have his daffodils and bluebells: he avill be unable this autumn to buy one tulip or hyacinth or an iris of the Spanish or Dutch typo. All of them, and there will bo millions, are to be shipped overseas, mainly to the United States and Canada. I For some years Litiie Holland. Avlv.ch is in Lincolnshire, has boon st Ting up shop in friendly rivalry with her iaig brother across the North Sea. Even m those days Holland OAved a good deal to English groAvers. for it was in England that enthusiastic amateurs maintained their "stud farms." hybridising varieties to produce many of the novelties developed commercially by the Dutch growers. Today. when the Nazis are goose-stepping among the tulip beds of Holland. Lincolnshire finds herself Avith a vast acreage of lovely floAvers. This year, with the cordial assistance of Dutch refugees hoav in Britain, she expects to have a crop of 30,000.000 bulbs for markets which were lately largely Dutch. Among lite daffodils are Helios, Firetail, and. of course. King Alfred. Outstanding tulips will be Bartigon (scarlet), Copeland (soft laven-' der), Princess Elizabeth (rich. rose’, crimson William Pitt; and also President Hoover. Wall Street and Ncav Orleans. They will bring to Britain hundreds of thousands of dollars to help drive the Nazis from the other tulip fields.