GRttnnGS 
T here is a time each year when the Tulip takes 
command of the clean, thrifty city of Holland, 
Michigan—a time when the festival spirit reigns 
and hundreds of thousands of people invade this lake' 
shore community to drink in the beauties of spring¬ 
time’s most welcome flower. For here the Tulip is to 
be seen in profusion such as nowhere else in America, 
—a city bedecked in the glamorous color of millions of Tulips, presenting a sight 
that visitors find entrancing and completely captivating. 
To entertain its avalanche of guests, Holland provides a daily 
round of festivities. The city goes “native” and dons its ancestral 
garb, everywhere are men and women, girls and boys, in typical 
Dutch dress, each of different pattern, yet all a part of an authentic 
picture—a gay, moving picture that provides for the Tulip a most 
appropriate and picturesque background. So highly regarded is the 
flower that has made Holland famous, that nothing cheap or artificial 
is allowed to mar the festival; the Tulip, alone, is Queen, and to its 
glory the city of Holland dedicates itself every year in May. 
^ Holland’s Burge- 
meester, who is 
here shown in his 
official Dutch dress, 
asks us to extend 
his greetings to the 
many recipients of 
this catalog, and to 
bid you “welkom” 
to Holland’s Tulip 
\ estival. 
HARRY NELIS 
General Manager 
from ike 
Gil 
y 
of tulips 
Nelis Nurseries play a quiet but important part in this 
annual Tulip festival. Not only do we supply the millions of 
Tulips which are to be seen throughout the city of Holland, 
but our mass plantings of over 500 varieties are the chief 
point of interest to the thousands upon thousands of visitors. 
In its extensiveness of varieties and gorgeousness of color, the 
Nelis Tulip farm is undoubtedly the most colorful mass dis¬ 
play of Tulips to be seen anywhere in the world. 
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