Arnhem And Its Connection With The Natural 

 Grass-Seed Export Trade. 



Of the cities in Holland which for scenery, public hygienic 

 arrangements, cleanliness and wellfare are most noted, Arnhem 

 ranks decidedly amongst the foremost. 



A foreigner, who might be inclined, as most foreigners are, to 

 picture to his mind Arnhem as a Dutch city, cut up by a great 

 many canals, spanned by numerous bridges and with a great 

 number of mills in the distance will, on paying a visit to this 

 city, be greatly struck by the fact, that his imagination of a Dutch 

 city has, at any rate in this instance, led him astray and to find 

 himself face to face with quite a modern city of about the same 

 style and stamp as those of the greater part of the West- 

 European continent; a city, therefore, of which it may be truly 

 said, that it has nothing about it, that can be called characteristic- 

 ally Dutch. 



Quite different from what it is in the provinces of North- 

 and S o u t h-H olland, Zealand and Utrecht, all of which 

 are situated below the level of the North- or German Sea, 

 and which for irrigation and drainage purposes are in various 

 directions cut up by canals which not only serve as waterways 

 for home-navigation, but likewise are the means to carry off to 

 the sea the superfluous waters pumped out of the agricultural, 

 arable lands by means of the manyfold steam- and wind-mills 

 built broadcast throughout these provinces, Arnhem and the 

 greater portion of the province of G u e 1 d r e, of which it is the 

 capital is situated above the Amsterdam- or se a-level, which 

 fact causes it to lack all that, which is characteristic to most of 

 the Dutch cities, towns and villages as these are generally seen 

 on pictures, exhibited in show-windows of art- and picture-dealers 

 in countries outside Holland. 



Arnhem, a city of about 62.000 inhabitants may be best 

 described as a luxury town; a place of comfort, to which a great 



