NEW MARKETS FOUND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 252, 6 August 1941, Page 6

NEW MARKETS FOUND.

MILLIONS OF BRITISH TULIPS. Tulip, hyacinth and iris bulbs are to be rarer in Britain than the onion. If he lias the space for them among his vegetables, the British gardener can have his daffodils and bluebells ; he will he unable this autumn to buy one tulip or hyacinth or aii iris of the Spanish or Dutch type. All of them—and there will bo millions—are to be shipped overseas mainly to the United States and Canada. For some years Little Holland Which is in Lincolnshire, has 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 that enthusiastic amateurs maintained their “stud farms,” hybridising different varieties to produce many of the novelties developed commercially by tire Dutch growers. Today when the Nazis are goose-stepping among the tulip beds of Holland, 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, Firotail and of course. King Alfred. Outstanding tulips will be Bartigon (scarlet), Copeland (soft Pavender), Princess Elizabeth (rich rose), crimson William 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 othet tulip fields, i