Author Pavord (The Tulip, 1999) has produced a charming, handsome book, the product of a lifetime of keeping notes on her passion, filled with practical advice on the purchase and care of bulbs. The approximately 600 entries include detailed descriptions of the blooms, some comparisons with related cultivars, plant size, hardiness, native areas, and bloom [...]
Tulipomania : The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
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Here is the Editorial Review for the book Tulipomania written by Mike Dash. This is a wonderful book about the history of the tulip written in story form. Read on… In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn’t help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from [...]
Tulip by Anna Pavord
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Amazon.com Review In an auction held in Holland in February 1637, 99 lots of tulip bulbs fetched a staggering 90,000 guilders, more than $3.5 million in today’s money. Tulipomania had reached its height, and its story is told in just one of the fascinating sections of Anna Pavord’s wonderful book on this most seductive of [...]
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