The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-09
An OCEAN OF FRAGRANCE.
How IIyacinths, Tulips. aMd Cfo-
cuses are Cultivated i'm HOLLAND.


! How IIyacinths, Tulips. and GRO
cuses are Cultivated I'm HOLLAND.
Holland has always been and probably
will ever be the mother OF bulbs. Few
persons. while admiring the beautiful
| flowers produced from Holland bulbs,
ever think of the care, time ana trouble
taken to grow them. Bulbs have been
! cultivated there four hundred or hve
hundred years, as near as can DE as
certained, but for several years past they
have received more attention than ever.
| Mr.. Beerhorst, bulb grower OF Lassen-
helm. near HARLEM, Holland, was inter
viewed in this city. He said:
.TIolland. as is we'll known, is all low
land. the greater part of it lower than
the sea. The water is kept off by dykes
Won have another name here. Erected
here and there on them are large wind
mills, that pump the water out when 1t
mandates the land. They present very
strange appearance to an unaccustomed
eye. We travel by canal boats like, I'M
derstand, was once done here"
"What is the soil like, that you are en-
ablcd to raise the finest bulDs?"
''The best in the world for bulb grow
inquire, sandy, soil. The reason
! Holland bulbs are best is owing to the
soil, temperature, and water, which is as
pure as is possible. We have only to
! dig three feet believe you measure by
feet hereto find water, not only in one
place, but anywhere"
GLOW do you plant hyacinths to IN
crease their number2'
s.We first fertilize the soil, put about
sixteen bushels of manure on each twelve
feet souarc, then. we take a hyacinth
bulb and cut across the bottom several
times, plant. and in June we lift. The
one bulb will be divided into several
small ones of perfect growth. y
"When do you plant first!"
Gin September. The great fogs from
the sea drive the frost away, but we al
ways cover the beds with weeds. We
cannot use straw, because then the mice
destroy our bulbs"
care your winters as cold as here"
''No; we are great ways further
north, yet our winters are not SO severe.
Probably the fogs help us some. Our
summers are not so intensely hot as in
this country"
care the hyacinths ready for sale after
the first year?''
mo, no; I would they were. The
first year they are planted close; the
second year we must plaNt them i'll new
SOIL as they will not grow two years in
the same ground. Every year each bulb
gets more space, until five years elapse,
when they are then ready to SELL"
"What do you do with the ground
you cannot use a second year?"
''We plant some other species of
flower and at the same time enrich the
SOIL Thus we change their homes al
ternatcly, and can always utilize the
ground. Bulbs have about six different
diseases, which / cannot name in your
language. Sometimes the soil gets tired
of the bulbs, and refuses to grow any
thing We give i. time to rest, and
then we dig up depth of four feet, put
on double quantity Of fertilizing mat
ter, and after another short rest it is
willing to start to work again. You
know everything in life must have some
time to rest, or it wears out, and is no
good afterw ard.'
'Tell me something about your
tulips"
"Well, plant the bulbs the same as
the others, only they do not need cut
ting, as they increase themselves by
forming ofshoots on the old ones. We
SEPARATE those and rcplant. We ofttimes
grow from secd-that makes the work.
From first planting it is four years until
the bloom. The strange part is they all
bloom coffee colorcd flower for mum
Der of years, when suddenly they will
bring forth some fine color, as those SEE
-1,Dl ,,,, h.,,, L. ,ot
our bulb is. They never hold the coffee
color, which is quite pretty, any longer
than four years. This we are sure of,
but what they will be in the end we
know not until they show us. Crocuses
are raised the same way. The three bulbs
mentioned will grow nicely in water.
For forcing | always use sandy loan,
which is the best"
GLOW many varieties of tulips have
you?"
''Three thousand inst 1850 to many.
I suppose there are more than that"
''What is your native place Iike?"
''The scenery is grand, elegant; Ican't
tell you in your language as | would like
to. We have lovely trees like here, that
is, the same kind. The land is perfectly
level. Everybody grows bulbs the
laborer, tailor, shoemaker, as well as the
florist All the houses-some one story,
some two, and none higher-are built of
brick. We build no pavements, but we
never have any mud, and our roads arc
always dry and smooth. not full of hard
coblestones like here. In the principal
bulb growing district, my home, Sasscn-
heim-you can see millions and millions
of tulips hyacinths and crOcuses in bloom
at once. Their beautiful fragrance is
waited for miles around On one acre
will be planted about 1905 bulbs.
Can you imagine then, looking over a
dozen of acres in bloom, what vast
sea, fit for a paradise, it ISL wish
were able to describe in your talk the
grandeur of it."
'What do think of our country?"
cit is grand, it is grand! Good for q
poor man-the rich man can get along
anywhere. If could not get along bet
ter than some at our place would come
to America. Our people dress very plain,
live plain, and meat is the greatest lux
ury. Some men who work very hard
have this fat rib meat, think you call
it bacon. l am really ashemed to tell
you what wages they get Three dol
lars per week is the average. Some get
81, and on rare occasions 81 25 and 81 SO
per day is paid, but the ordinary laborer
here gets twice as much as in our coun-
try" -Iitts6uay Dispatch.
WORDS OF WISDOM
He that gets out of debt grows rich.