ENGLISH BULBS.
It is always a pleasant thing to note a new English so of production competing with imports ; and for many reaso it is satisfactory to hear, and see, that the bulbs, which are all at this date being tempted to order for our garde are grown as well in Eastern England as in Holland. Itni growing in South Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire is, mo or less, new on any considerable scale. It was increased the ex-Service small-holders who were settled at Su Bridge ; and some of them produce as good bulbs as t Dutchmen at Haarlem itself. English gardeners ought to more widely aware of the excellence of these home-gro bulbs. After all, Holland and the neighbourhood of th Wash are two ends of the same shallow valley ; and mu that the Dutchmen do we can do. There is, indeed, adequate reason why the intensive gardens for vegetabl that continue to multiply round about Delft and the H should not spread to England. But for such development must wait. What is important at the moment is that t bulb-growers of the Eastern Counties would enjoy a „ access of prosperity if their success in flower-growing we more generally appreciated. And they need success. failure of the apple crop has brought real hardship, has hid threatened local calamity to some of the best and most inte sive growers of fruit, flowers and vegetables within the Britis Isles. The people of Wisbech and its neighbourhood a among the worst sufferers.
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