A FLOURISHING INDUSTRY.
Both these I have seen growing at Holbeach in South Lincolnshire. The rapidity of the growth of the industry in that richest bit of England, well named Holland, may be inferred from the history of a single grower. When he started to grow bulbs, twenty years ago, the industry was just beginning ; and was virtually unknown to the world at large. It has so flourished in the interval that this one grower who has now approximately 150 acres under bulbs, chiefly daffodils and tulips, pays at least £100 a week in wages. A large area of land is covered with packing sheds, offices and lines of hot houses, each some 150 feet in length, used both for growing bulbs and tomatoes and for bringing on the flowers gathered when in bud. He has to supply a million and more bulbs a year merely for his own houses.
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