A Descriptive Catalogue of Tulips, Together with Its History, Mode of Cultivation, &c |
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Seite 12 - The flower should be large, and composed of six petals : these should proceed a little horizontally at first, and then turn upwards, forming almost a perfect cup, with a round bottom, rather wider at the top. The three exterior petals should be rather larger than the three interior ones, and broader at their base : all the petals should have perfectly entire...
Seite 7 - About the year 1636, the spirit of floral gambling was carried to such excess at Haarlem, that during three years it is said to have yielded to that city a sum not less than ten millions sterling ; for the price of these bulbs rose higher than the most precious metal. For a single Tulip, with the name of Semper Augustus...
Seite 7 - Twelve acres of land were given for a single root, and engagements to the amount of ^"5,000 were made for a...
Seite 7 - ... a sum equal to the ideal value of a fine flower of this kind, it was frequently disposed of by way of lottery or raffle. We are told of a person who possessed a very fine Tulip, but finding there was a second root of the same nature in Haarlem, he repaired to that place, and, after having purchased it at an enormous price, placed it on a flag-stone, and pounded it to a mummy with his foot, exclaiming, with exultation,
Seite 6 - Eye, a merchant of Mechlin, took under his care, which produced a variety of beautiful flowers. It is also related that a sailor, having taken some goods to a Dutch merchant, had a herring given him for his breakfast ; but seeing what he supposed to be a kind of small onion lying on the counter, the tar carelessly took up a handful, which he immediately ate with his dried fish. These proved to have been Tulips of so much value, that it was estimated a magnificent breakfast might have been given to...
Seite 6 - It would almost be impossible for us to credit the extraordinary accounts handed down respecting the high prices given for Tulips by the Dutch florists of that age, were we not acquainted with their gambling speculations in this bulb, which carried them to a much greater excess than their real fondness for flowers. Bets, to a ruinous amount, were often made respecting the eventful superiority of promising seedling bulbs ; and for the possession of breeders of high merit, from which a superior variety...
Seite 6 - ... of John Henry Hawart, of Augsburg. The Tulip was first introduced into England in the reign of Elizabeth. It is stated in "Martin's edition of Miller," that a merchant of Antwerp had a cargo of Tulip- roots as early as 1562, and taking them for a sort of onion, ordered some to be roasted under the embers, and ate them with oil and vinegar, like common onions ; the remainder he set in the kitchen garden, amongst the cabbages, where most of them perished, except a few that Georgo Rye, a merchant...
Seite 6 - Tulips, was carried to very great excess in Holland and in France ; so much so, that it brought ruin and bankruptcy upon many families. The Tulipo-mania. as it was justly termed, was entered into by these nations with as much avidity, for a time, as the Mississippi and South Sea schemes were in our own country. It would almost be impossible for us to credit the extraordinary accounts handed down respecting the high prices given for Tulips by the Dutch florists of that age, were we not acquainted...
Seite 5 - Nights" tales in the shade. The Tulip was sent, in the year 1554, by Auger Gislen Busbec, from Constantinople to Vienna, with the remark that the Turks charged a high price for them. Conrad Gesner says, that he saw the Tulip plant in the year 1559, in the garden of John Henry Hawart, of Augsburg. The Tulip was first introduced into England in the reign of Elizabeth. It is stated in "Martin's edition of Miller...
Seite 12 - ... and leave it to the fancier to decide which is the best. The first is Mr. Glenny's. He states, that the cup to be unique, should be only one third of a circle. No. 2 is Mr. Groom's which is one half, and No 3, is my own, which is one half and the sixteenth part. The top of each petal ought to be broad and well rounded and perfectly level.