The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-22

eottiers. bought up at different peri Ods, just as he could get them, by the enterprising cuftivatOr of bulbs. The flourish bravely, massed together in the hedges, close cut and sheltering, are ! the same that the dead and gone oc- cupies of the snow-white cottages built fer themselves in times gone by, to guard their more prosaic crops of po- tatoes, or cabbage, or lettuce from the winds of the east and north.
 The soil is sandy, so much so that ones feet sink softly into it to the depth of many inches as one traveTses ! the narrow pathways which interesect that dazzling array of tulip beds. Field after field is stretched before one, acres and acres of tulips-and such tulips! None of your slender, dropping, town-bred weddings, but great strong giants, measuring from head to foot from two and half to three feet, with deep generous cups, and sturdy stems and rich green foli-7 age full of health and vigor. They i fiorish bravely, massed together in the sandy soil, lifting their chalice-like cups in the sunshine, or drinking in the heavy dews of evening.
 Here lies a great bed of orange yell low, the "Bounton dor" one broad sheet of golden, delicately fashioned i goblets; beyond them spreads a rich mass of cherry red. then a sea of pure white, then one of lilac, there pink, then primrose, and so on through ev- i cry conceivable variety of shade and color. One has to see this farm of acres and acres of tulips to realize its beauty-this heavenly tapestry of gOr- geously brilliant tinting and softest and most delicate texture.
 1 Here is a bed of Parrot" tulips, a singularly handsome section, with their grotesque, ragged edged huge, wide open cups splashed in varying tints of orange and scarlet, green and brown; here, again, a strip of curious looking black tulips, La Tulipe Noire,'' with it's deep, velvety dark petals. Quieter looking still is the array of green blos- i sOms flecked with the palest primrose while there are hundreds of other kinds less curious, but more beautiful and delicate; while tipped with crim- son, liliac pencillcd in white, orange fringed with scarlet, and so cn through an indescribable variety of dainty and exquisite blooms, the nIere sight Of which dazles ones eyes in the strong sunshine.
 Here and there this sea of beauty and color is flecked by small light looking structures of wooden laths and white canvas-like a flotilla of white sailed boats or cloud of white but
 terfiies-designed to keep off the strength of the suns rays, and so hold
 back little longer the full develop
 ment Of the blossoms beneath, while
 at enc end of the field is a huge white
 tent, put over a number of the most choice and valuable sorts, with the same wise intention.
 In one of the many drying and sort ing houses a number of men and boys
 were bUsily employed in packing into large roomy boxes some exquisite
 blooms of tulips and ranuncuh and St
 Bridget anemones and other choice blossoms, destined for the then forth
 coming Temple show in London, or the
 less imposing flower display in the
 Waverly Market, Edinburgh.
 It appears that the peculiar nature
 of the soil, sandy. and moist, and vel
 manured year after year as it has
 been, makes it .prc-eminently suited
 to bulb growing.