The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-07-11
HOLLANDS GARDENS.
Immense yaiues for which Bulbs Sell In
the Home of the Dutch.


The bulb farmer of Holland has to
do great deal before he gets his
ground to his mind. Along the coast
stretch the sand dune hills. This ma
tural protection has been raised in ages
past by the action of the wind. The
sand heaps cover the original vegeta-
ton. This yegetati has become peat.
When the farmer has cleared away
both sand and peat he has the ground
on which to plant his bulbs-a ground
for the lack Of the like of which other
than Dutch farmers are said to have
less luck in bulb-g growing.
So, when you visit Holland in the
end of April or the beginning of May,
and find the country round HARLEM
one blaze of color, you will notice that
the land in which tulips and hyacinths
are Towering is several yards beneath
the original surface.
What once was a sand-hil is now
cultivated land. What once was road
over the dune is now an embankment.
The excavated sand taken away on small
barges by little canals for use in dyke
and dock construction elsewhere re-
allies about enough to cover the ex-
penses Of digging it out and smoothing
over the land, and surrounding it by
small trees.
The trees having been reared to keep
off the cold. the farmers first task is
to thoroughly dig and manure the land.
Then he plants a crop of potatoes.
In September they are taken out, the
ground is once more thoroughly shaken
up and manured-the special manure
costs no less than three hundred dol
lars an acre. and this is an annual ex-
pensc. The actual planting Of the bulb
is carried out by digging long yard
broad few inches deep, trenches, in
which the roots are set singly at equal
distances apart. The trenches are COW
cred with sand.
No one seems to know how many
bulbs are grown in Holland, but the
extent of the industry may be gath
cred fsom the fact that the Society Of
Persons Interested in bulb growing has
no fewer than fourteen branches.
The organization retains experts in
hvacinth disease, and the life history
Of the narcissus fly. 1t also makes its
man bcrs sign a declaration that they
viii not sell cut flowers "either into
tht country or to foreign parts, except
for samples, exhibitions and private re-
iOicings" The cutting Of flowers in
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