GENEROUS GIFT
TULIPS FOR CEMETERIES HONOURING WAR DEAD Out of the reduced store of tulips left to them the people of Holland have set aside 110,000 tulip bulbs to honour American soldier dead and to make more beautiful American national cemeteries. It is a generous gift, for the tulip was no less a casualty of war than the dead it now will honour, says the New York Times. Many were lost when the fields were flooded, although reports from Holland now say the damage was not so extensive as.at first believed. Many were eaten, for the people were reduced to that, as a substitute for potatoes, or ground and mixed with the little flour available to make bread. The bulbs will bloom in all their loveliness next spring in the Arlington, Baltimore and Lond Island cemeteries. There they will lift their chaliced flowers in all the colours of the rainbow and bring a touch of beauty to the rigid pattern of military graves set rank on rank and file on file, so many paces right and left, so many paces front and rear.
They , will do more than words can say and will be a deeply treasured gift by which the American heart will be touched and for which the American nation will be grateful.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21900, 19 December 1945, Page 6
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