BULBS AND THE E.M.B.
Among the latest productions of the Empire Marketing Beard is a series of persuasive pictures of the bulb fields and packing sheds of the Lincolnshire bulb growers. Not once or twice the Spectator has urged on English gardeners the wisdom of buying English bulbs, and these pictures of the Board are welcomed. But one suggestion, which is very nearly a criticism, may be made. I have received a great many letters from readers of the Spectator, and in every single one exactly the same question is asked : " Where exactly can we order these bulbs ? " A great part, perhaps as much as 90 per cent., of the value of this artistic propaganda is lost because this detail is omitted. Could not the Empire Marketing Board give what may be called a liaison address to which buyers could apply when they wanted to be put into direct connexion with sellers. Almost all buyers follow the line of least resistance ; and since our breakfast tables are bombarded with the addresses of foreign sellers we apply to the address we know and do not labour to discover the English address so persistently hidden from our notice.
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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