Two of The Netherlands’ top plant pathologists arrived in Washington, D.C. last week on an important commercial mission, because U.S. wanted to cut tulip bulb shipments.

Two of The Netherlands’ top plant pathologists arrived in Washington, D.C. last week on an important commercial mission. They were there to talk the Department of Agriculture out of limiting imports of Netherlands bulbs (1946 imports: $8,000,000). The department wanted to cut bulb shipments to “amounts needed for propagation…