The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men MadTHE TULIP is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into the world-wide phenomenon it is today. No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour, mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution. Pavord tells how the tulip arrived from Turkey and took the whole of Western Europe by storm. Sumptuously illustrated from a wide range of sources, this beautifully produced and irresistible volume will become a bible, a unique source book, a universal gift book and a joy to all who possess it. |
Contents
A Flower of the East | |
The Tulip in Northern Europe | |
Early British Growers | |
The Dutch and Tulipomania | |
Dutch Dominance | |
The English Florists Tulip | |
The Last Hundred Years | |
Acknowledgements | |
Notes | |
A Note on the Author | |
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Ahmed III Ambrosius Bosschaert Amsterdam auction auriculas azen Baguet beautiful Bizarres bloom botanist break bred breeders brought Busbecq Bybloemen carnations catalogue Clusius collection colour Conrad Gesner cultivars Dutch early England English florists Europe feathered and flamed Flanders Flemish Flora flowers France French Gaergoedt Gardener’s Gerard Gesner growing guilders Haarlem Hanmer Hardy Hillegom Holland Horticultural Hortus Huguenot hyacinths Istanbul Iznik Jacob Marrell John John Rea Joris Hoefnagel kinds of tulip Krelage later Leiden Lobelius London Louis XVI Mehmed IV Monstereul Museum Netherlands nursery nurseryman Oosten Ottoman painted Parrot tulip petals Philip Miller pink plants published purple ranunculus red and white red tulips roses seed seedlings Semper Augustus seventeenth century sold species striped Sultan trade tulip beds tulip books tulip bulbs tulip fanciers tulip growers tulip shows Tulip Society tulipomania tulips appear Turkey Turkish varieties vases Wakefield white ground white tulip wild wrote yellow tulip