In a Westward Ho! Garden

Two heads are better than one and three are better still, thinks Mrs E G Fisher, of Manorville, Kingsley Road, Westward Ho! seen here with the three-headed tulip that sprang from a single bulb in her garden. The tulip is cerise coloured and the bulb was just planted and received no special attention. 'Like Topsy it just growed' said Mrs Fisher.

Mr Roger Cobley, of the Seymour Cobley bulb farm at Braunton told the Bideford and North Devon Gazette that a three-headed tulip was by no means a rarity, adding that he had seen one bulb produce as many as fourteen flower heads. 'It just means that it is a large and very strong growing bulb' he said.

Article dated 25 May 1956