CHAPTER VI 



BULB BARNS, NAMES, AND GROWERS 



THERE is, without doubt, a certain charm in bulb 

 barns ; not perhaps quite the charm of an old 

 English barn, wherein there is ever a brown twi- 

 light and never a straight line, and it is still possible 

 to think of the Good People coming to shelter on 

 wet nights. Dutch barns, even the least well kept 

 of them, are too orderly for that. They are rather 

 too foursquare and deficient in the unexpected 

 annexes and the mysterious doors leading to 

 nowhere and anywhere which are part of the 

 true fascination of barns. Nevertheless they have 

 attractions ; they are warm -coloured, lofty, silent, 

 and full of a pleasant dry smell ; they are essen- 

 tially not people's houses though, especially at some 

 seasons of the year, they are houses of quiet, stored 

 life. 



Every grower must have a barn ; the big men, 



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