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Tulips have had their worshippers in other 
parts of the world besides Turkey. It was 
from 1644 to 1647 that the tulipomania exer- 
cised its influence in Holland. In those years 
tulips fetched enormous prices and enriched 
many speculators. The most precious kind 
was that called semper augustus; this they 
valued at 2,000 florins. They pretended that 
it was so rare, that there existed only two 
flowers of that species, one at Haarlem and the 
other at Amsterdam. A connoisseur, to procure 
one root, offered 4,600 florins, with a beautiful 
carriage, horses, and equipments. Another 
gave twelve acres of land for a tulip root. We 
are also told of a person who had a very fine 
tulip; but finding that there was a second root 
of the same nature at Haarlem, he repaired 
thither, and having purchased it at a most extra- 
vagant cost, pounded it to pieces with his foot, 
exclaiming with exultation, “ Now my tulip is 
unique !” 
wren 
DELICACY, 
BLUE-BOTTLE CENTAURY. 
Tue beautiful blue of this flower, which is 
of the colour of an unclouded sky, has made 
it the emblem of a tender and delicate senti- 
ment, nourished by hope. According to ancient 

