. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 340 The American Plorist. Sept. 2, dreds of thousands of certain varieties are sold to the Dutch growers every year to be sold back again to British and American buyers. There are very few places in England and Ireland where daffodils cannot be as well grown as in Holland, and the trade in this respect may be considered to be absolutely safe. This point, as I have already hinted is not proved in regard to tulips yet, and it will be necessary to have a show of British grown tulip bulbs on a large scale—in thousands
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 340 The American Plorist. Sept. 2, dreds of thousands of certain varieties are sold to the Dutch growers every year to be sold back again to British and American buyers. There are very few places in England and Ireland where daffodils cannot be as well grown as in Holland, and the trade in this respect may be considered to be absolutely safe. This point, as I have already hinted is not proved in regard to tulips yet, and it will be necessary to have a show of British grown tulip bulbs on a large scale—in thousands instead of dozens ?—to emphasize the matter. In regard to hyacinths, it looks as if the Dutch growers may sleep in peace. There was only one exhibit of these bulbs from a small London gar- den to "prove," as the exhibitor said, that even hyacinths could be grown in England. Unfortunately the exhibitor (who was an amateur) did not know what a good hyacinth bulb should be like, and his exhibit, if it proved any- thing, proved that hyacinth growing as a commercial undertaking was at present beyond the scope of the British climate. "When that is changed there may be a chance of doing hyacinths on a large scale. If there had been any chance of success the growers from the Spalding and Wisbech dis- tricts would no doubt have staged as fine bulbs of hyacinths as they did of tulips and daffodils. Now that a start has been made, it is possible that on a future occasion the exhibition of British grown bulbs may be on a larger scale—and one that will prove whether it is possible to make their cultivation a commercial success. In addition to the tulips and daffodils many other genera were represented and gave the public an excellent idea of; the great variety of plants that come under the heading of "; The curious shapes of many were no doubt a revelation, even to those who know the plants well by the blossoms. "W. Wm. F. Kasting: Co., Buffalo,
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