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The Holland Bulh Gardens, Limmen, Holland, Established 1868 
Do You Know The Following Things 
About Holland ? 
that 
the best time to visit it is in April or May, when the bulb-fields are at 
their best; 
we will be very pleased to lead you around our nurseries and ware¬ 
houses, also show interesting parts of Holland and how we treat and handle 
our bulbs, etc.; only let us know when we may see you in Holland; 
our firm was established in 1868, and has been exporting bulbs, etc., to 
Canada and U.S.A. for over 37 years. 
windmills were also used by the population of Dutch villages to com¬ 
municate news about death, birth, etc., to neighbors; the wings are placed 
in a certain position, and every position indicates some kind of news; 
although Holland is in size equal to only Connecticut and Massachusetts, 
its population is about 8 million people; every inch of ground is cultivated 
in Holland while in the larger cities and their suburbs (Amsterdam, Rotter¬ 
dam and The Hague) every house is three or four floors high, where at least 
three or four families are living; 
Holland controls the third largest colonial Empire, viz., the Dutch East 
Indies, with a population of 62,000,000; 
about 40% of Holland is at least 12 feet below sea level; 
Holland has about 1,600 miles of dykes, most of them being along the 
North Sea shore; 
Amsterdam, the largest city of Holland, consists really of 90 islands, 
separated by canals, with more than 300 small and large bridges; in the 
time that all cities were surrounded by moats, Amsterdam grew very fast, 
so that every time they dug a new one, leaving the old one also intact, the 
older part of the city became an island; 
the voyage to India takes by boat 30 days. Holland opened the first bi¬ 
weekly air service about eight years ago, which takes only 5^ days, with 55 
hours’ actual flying. 
Send in your order as soon as possible. 
