GACCIINGS 
from the City of Culips 
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- 
HARRY NELIS shore community to drink in the beauties of spring- 
General Manager 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 Holland's Burge- 
garb, everywhere are men and women, girls and boys, in typical gies SERS 
Dutch dress, each of different pattern, yet all a part of an authentic OH eel ath: cists, 
picture—a gay, moving picture that provides for the Tulip a most his greetings to the 
appropriate and picturesque background. So highly regarded is the Lipa peqmaes: 
flower that has made Holland famous, that nothing cheap or artificial pid soy eon, 
is allowed to mar the festival; the Tulip, alone, is Queen, and to its Festival. : 
glory the city of Holland dedicates itself every year in May. 


Nelis Nurseries play a quiet but important part in this point of interest to the thousands upon thousands of visitors. 
annual Tulip festival. Not only do we supply the millions of In its extensiveness of varieties and gorgeousness of color, the 
Tulips which are to be seen throughout the city of Holland, Nelis Tulip Farm is undoubtedly the most colorful mass dis- 
but our mass plantings of over 500 varieties are the chief play of Tulips to be seen anywhere in the world. 
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