Tulips in Holland
OU would see great areas planted with nothing .4 but pale pink tulips, the next field all yellow, another red, or.bronze or mauve. These stately flowers, growing in close rows, like soldiers on parade, were an unforgettable sight.
The land where they are grown is flat, like, shall we say, the Manawatu, or the Canterbury plains, very green and fertile with canals dividing it. The Dutch use water transport a great deal, and barges sometimes with sails move slowly along between green fields with cattle grazing, or between the gay tulip fields. It’s an extraordinary
sight to see these boats their sails spread moving along across the landscape. Often you don’t see the actual canal, and it appears as if they were sailing over the very land itself.(From "Shoes and Ships and Sealing-Wax," by Nelle Scanlan.) % * *
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 10
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