The Beautiful Tulips
A tall stem framed by several leaves and bell like tulip
always catches us to admire it. It moves a child to pick it and a woman to have
it. Holland is known for its tulips. The country is almost always associated
with these flowers beside windmills. The flowers have long cought the hearts of
dutch. It was as early as the first time they were brought to Europe. This moved
alexandre dumos to write that the ducth paid too much respect to the tulips. Even,
no naturalists ever dere to do so. They were afraid of arousing the jealousy of
god.
As a matter of fact, tulip came from central asia. They were
brought to afganistan, iran, Caucasus, and leter to Holland. As story tell that
once a French botanist carolus clusius got tulips from the Austrian ambassador
to the court of king sulaiman. Clusius, however, was never willing to share the
tulips for purposes other than science. This made a group envious dutch
gardeners to steal them. Within a few years, tulips were blooming in every part
of Holland.
Since then, tulips have become commercials goods. It invited
speculators to be in the tulips business. Every body wanted to make a big
profit from the stage. 1630’s was known as the tulipomanis period. In the later
stage, there were more sellers than buyers. This. of course, crashed the
market. It is said that there was so large amount of money in this business. This
put the country’s finance in a big trouble. Nowadays, there are 4.000 varietas
of garden tulips. They show great variation in color and type.
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