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Tulip. 
mania has been attributed to Lipsius, but he was perfectly 
guiltless of the gambling portion of it, having merely proffered 
high prices for the best flowers. 
These disasters, however, have not eradicated from the 
minds of the Dutch their love for the tulip ; they still have 
a great partiality for it, and, some few years ago, Herr Van- 
derninck paid as much as £640 for a single bulb of a new 
species. The English are not free from the tulipomania: from 
A 5 to £ 10 is no uncommon price for new and choice varieties; 
in 1836, at a sale of a Mr. Clarke’s tulips at Croydon, A100 
was given for a single bulb, the “ Fanny Kemble.” And our 
tulip-fanciers are not altogether unsuspected of still experi¬ 
mentalizing for that philosopher’s stone of gardening, a black 
tulip. 
The furore which the tulip had excited in Holland caused 
it to become a popular flower in other countries; and under 
careful cultivation it multiplied so rapidly, that, in 1740, the 
Baden Durlach Garden at Karlsruhe contained no less than 
2,159 kinds, and Count Pappenheim’s gardens, at one time, 
more than 5,000 varieties ! 
There is a bulb of the tulip species in ’Assyria, which sleeps 
through the long summer drought, then wakens again to life, 
and prematurely puts forth blossoms when the early rains of 
October invigorate the soil; but, like too many earthly an¬ 
ticipations, the flower is smitten by the snow or blasted by 
the wintry winds, and seems to perish; by-and-bye, however, 
spring resumes its sunny reign, and these blooms once more 
make their appearance, with all that vivid beauty of colour, 
and those variety of forms, which are so glowingly depicted 
on the canvas or described in the pages of Eastern poets. 
