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...(They recently expanded with new outposts in Holland Park, Covent Garden and at the Royal Exchange.)...
...When I last checked out the bulb stalls in Istanbul’s bazaar, all the bulbs on offer were Dutch varieties. The identity of the tulips in fine Ottoman pictures and pottery is still disputed....
...“The ’70s was a decade in which community gardens and city farms and what you call ‘grow your own’ began,” says Grossmann. “They decided to use the profit to begin an urban greening programme.”...
...The leading grower and supplier for the past 20 years is Bart Bergman, who attends the Dutch Reformed Church when he is not busy on his bulb farm....
...They are so much finer on the farms of the Dutch growers, who then sell them to me so I can watch them dwindle in my unsilted soil....
...Edison developed a carbon filament within a glass bulb that by 1880 could burn for 1,200 hours....
...On the US payrolls data, the November non-farm payrolls rise was the lowest since July, up 112,000. The market consensus was for a 180,000 rise in payrolls....
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