4 MAY 1929, Page 17

some parts of the district are as well worth a

visit as 'Haarlem itself. Both small and big farmers grow daffodils, narcissi, and tulips, and the Dutch themselves have taken a hand, both personally and by their capital, just as they have—also in the East of England—in sugar-beet. -You see here, there, and everywhere glass-houses, many doubtless used chiefly for the packing of potatoes, but a fair number for drying. bulbs and for growing flowers under glass as a supplerhent to out-of-dour cultivation. There is money to be made indoors as well as out. The electrical development of the district is going ahead very fast and incidentally may do much to promote both horticulture and agriculture, if and when: the supply can be cheapened, as is anticipated.