Description Includes pictures Includes contemporary accounts Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading If one were to glide over the Dutch countryside via helicopter in the springtime, the beauty below them would seem almost surreal.
This aggressively volatile period, marked by convoluted and careless market speculation, inevitably culminated in the disastrous bursting of one of the world\'s First financial bubbles, an example of the perils of herd mentali.
At the crescendo of what is now remembered as "Tulip Mania," or the "Tulip Craze," a single, shallot-like bulb of an unripe Tulip was worth 20 times the annual salary of a skilled laborer.
As a matter of fact, these delightful "harbingers of spring" were supposedly once so rabidly sought-after that it wasn\'t just more valuable than gold - men threw themselves into financial ruin all for the sake of attaining just one of these sacred flowers.
Legend has it, however, that this was not always the case.
Needless to say, like every other floral breed, special tulips - such as hybrids, or ones with unique, multi-colored streaks and patterns - will cost buyers a pretty penny, but a bouquet is certainly not going to break the bank.
They are a creative alternative to roses, lilies, and other traditional flowers. 50 USD per stem today. 00 to $3.
Standard tulips, depending on where one is based, typically sell for anywhere between $1.
The Netherlands is now the world\'s leading commercial producer of tulips, shipping out more than 3 billion of these colorful beauties each year.
These world-famous three-petal, three-sepal flowers, all craning their necks towards the dazzling sun, are none other than Dutch tulips.
The ethereal sight is even more breathtaking when one takes a stroll along these fields, surrounded by endless carpets of bright color.
The rolling rectangular fields are composed of immaculately neat, horizontal stripes in vibrant swatches of scarlet, pink, lavender, cream-white, and midnight-blue.
Description Includes pictures Includes contemporary accounts Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading If one were to glide over the Dutch countryside via helicopter in the springtime, the beauty below them would seem almost surreal
