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Gardening: Tulip Mania
Published 4 months ago
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In 1636 for a few glittering months the tulip sat at the centre of the first great speculative bubble in European history. A single flower bulb, not even in bloom yet, had just changed hands for more than the price of a fine house with a garden on the smartest canal in Amsterdam.
We now call it Tulip Mania, Diarmuid Gavin tells us more.