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Dutch Bulbs and Gardens

Chapter 2: PREFACE
By Una L. Silberrad
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A travel and horticultural account that follows canal journeys to the Netherlands’ bulb country, pairing vivid travel observation with practical gardening information. It describes steamer passages and flat, industrious landscapes, presents close views of crocus, hyacinth and tulip plantings and formal palace gardens, and documents market scenes and growers’ routines. Separate chapters offer cultivation guidance, bulb storage and naming, and profiles of bulb farms, while appended historical notes trace aspects of the hyacinth and tulip trades. Colour illustrations accompany the text, and chapters alternate evocative description with technical advice on propagation, packing and seasonal display.

PREFACE

Miss Nixon wishes me to present her humble duty and thanks to Her Majesty, the Queen of the Netherlands, for graciously honouring her with the permission to make drawings of Her Majesty’s Summer Palace and Gardens at Het Loo.

Miss Nixon also wishes me to thank His Excellency Baron Sistema van Grövestins for his kindness in procuring for her the privilege of access to the Royal Gardens at Het Loo, and to thank the Rt. Hon. Sir Horace Rumbold, Bart., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., for his kind help.

Her thanks are also due to Mr. W. H. Wind, Her Majesty’s Head Gardener at Het Loo; to Miss van der Laan, Bennebroek; and to Messrs. Tubergen, Kersten, Krelager, Roozen, and the other growers at Haarlem.

I wish to thank Mr. Thomas Hoog of Haarlem, who helped me in the compiling of the following pages by supplying much valuable information, which I trust I have not too greatly mishandled.

UNA L. SILBERRAD.

March 1, 1909.