The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1922-03-16
PAPER MOVES BULB
FARM TO LINDEN
New York World Reporter Moves
Government Gardens Right To
This City

The extensive government bulb
! farm. located just outside the
Bellingham city limits on the
Guide Meridian road, was moved
over to Lynden this week by an
| enterprising correspondent for
the New York World. That paper
| published an article on the bulb
farm under Lynden date-line,
and placed the beautiful gardens
in this city.
AS the bulb farm lies between
Lynden and Bellingham, it may
be all right for this city to claim
possession, but no one had sug-
gested the plan, until the bold
reporter tried it out in the big
Eastern paper.
Eastern Man Seeks Bulbs Here
AS one result of the story.
Postmaster d. l.. Beckes received
this week a letter from an East
ern bulb exporter, seeking in
| formation about the Puget Sound
product. He said he was delay
ing making his annual trip to
Holland to purchase bulbs, in or
der to find out if it was true
he could get better ones right in
his own country.
Mr.. Beckes sent the letter to
the director of the bulb farm to
be answered.
Lynden Annexes Farm
The following is the New York
World story:
LYNDEN, Wash, March 4
Seven to eight million hyacinths
are coming through the ground
on the government bulb farm
here. Acres of tulips, daffodils
and crOcuses, the bulbs crowded
closely together in wide rows,
will this spring display their
bloom on one of the largest ex-
detrimental tracts cultivated by
the Department of Agriculture.
With its soil and climate par
ticularly adapted to bulb grow
ing, Holland is famous for its
spring flowers, but competitor
is soon to invade her long list of
customers, for hundreds of far
mers in the Puget Sound district
and on her islands have secured
bulbs for breeding from the Gov
eminent experimental farm and
this summer will harvest their
first commercial crop. The pro-
ducts will be hyacinths of i'm
mense size, tulips of two hundred
varieties, and many varieties of
narcissus.
No Frost To Worry About
The Northwestern bulb is pro-
duced in a climate far exceeding
that of Holland, for the frost
element does not enter. The
bulbs are grown in a deep black
soil, with enough sand to produce
both size and distinctive color.
The flower spikes of the local
hyacinth are immense, one last
spring possessing 230 separate
flower bells.
The Government farm here has
been in operation for ten years
and careful attention given to
the propagation Of hyacinths.
The bulbs are scooped by pro-
cess which removes cone shaped
core from the root end. This
scooped bulb when planted, in
stead of Towering, sends out fifty
or sixty little bulblets which in
four years reach the commercial
size. These measure from two to
three inches in diameter. or twice
those imported.
$4,000 An Acre In 1t
Tulips are forced to multiply
| by picking the bulbs early. Mar
cissus and its daffodil family
| produce mother bulbs here that
surpass in size and vigor all
Holland stock.
Puget Sound planters have
been furnished stock from this
farm for seven years and are
now actively engaged in supply
| ing the demand for bulbs in this
country. From an acre of bulbs
the almost Incredible profit of
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