Tulips in England
ee have a special way of planting the tulips at Hampton Court. First there is a bed of some small, low, thickly-flowering plant providing a solid carpet of colour, and the tulips are grown at intervals, about six or eight inches apart, through this, You will see a bed of blue forget-me-nots, with pale pink tulips growing through it, ora bed of some small pale yellow flowers, with bronze tulips, and a carpet of pale lavender will be the setting for those deep purple ones, the colour of grapes. It is certainly a most effective way to grow tulips. England now supplies most of her own tulip bulbs, though there is still more trade done with Dutch growers.-(From "Shoes and Ships and Sealing-Wax,’ by Nelle Scanlan.) 1% af #
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 10
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