HOI,I,AND - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



From these figures it might be deduced that the total value of the 

 export of Dutch horticulture is about 73,000,000 francs, but it should be re- 

 membered that this does not include new potatoes and that the larger 

 share of the onions is produced not b>' hortictiltitrists but by the peasants. 

 To estimate the production the consumption of the six million Dutch people, 

 who are accustomed to eat large quantities of vegetables, must also be borne 

 in mind. 



I have given the fig tires for 1915 as the}' stand in the last of the sources 

 indicated, but I must warn my readers that they are very abnormal, espe- 

 cially because several buyers have disappeared from the market and expor- 

 tation has been distributed among the others. 



Probably Dutch horticulture was highly specialized at its very origin- 

 The specialization subsists and has the advantage that it produces everj', 

 where generations of good workmen and well informed employers. It 

 has moreover facilitated the birth and development of the organization 

 which is the pride cf the market-gardeners, and has made them well-to-do 

 and so powerful that in the present very difficult circumstances they have 



