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Things Seen in Holland
and travel through the Hillegom-Haarlem district [1] when they will see acres upon acres of tulips and hyacinths in full bloom, while in the cities the quays (kaden) are lined with barges converted for the nonce into floating flower-beds.
Not in Holland alone, but in England, did a mad craze exist for the tulip (the word is derived from the Persian toliban, a turban). It is on record that in 1834 a Mr. Davey, of Chelsea, paid the sum of £100 for a single bulb of “Miss Fanny Kemble.” This purchase is described in a “Treatise on the Cultivation of Florists' Flowers,” by T. Hogg, of Paddington. “This precious gem,” wrote Mr. Hogg,
- ↑ Those who wish to learn more about tulip-growing will find an exhaustive account in the Journal of Horticulture, vol. xxix., to which we are indebted for some of the information given above.
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