Unfavored. Yellow Tulips, Prinsentuin, Groningen, The Netherlands
In Groningen again I had to, of course, visit the Prinsentuin, once one of my favorite spots out of the hum of the City. It's still very early Spring and quite cold, but Tulips are coming into their own. Especially appropriate, I think, in Groningen. One of the few first-hand sources for the so-called Tulipomania of the early seventeenth century is in the great botanical work by Abraham Munting (1626-1683), professor of botany at the Groningen university. He writes that his father Henricus (1583-1658), also the university's botanist, was nearly bankrupted in the late 1630s by investing unwisely in Tulip bulbs before the market broke. See my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/4555580909/in/photolis....
These Yellow Tulips, though, wouldn't have fetched high prices in those days. Favored flowers were multi-colored and variegated. You might have had to sell your house to own one...
Unfavored. Yellow Tulips, Prinsentuin, Groningen, The Netherlands
In Groningen again I had to, of course, visit the Prinsentuin, once one of my favorite spots out of the hum of the City. It's still very early Spring and quite cold, but Tulips are coming into their own. Especially appropriate, I think, in Groningen. One of the few first-hand sources for the so-called Tulipomania of the early seventeenth century is in the great botanical work by Abraham Munting (1626-1683), professor of botany at the Groningen university. He writes that his father Henricus (1583-1658), also the university's botanist, was nearly bankrupted in the late 1630s by investing unwisely in Tulip bulbs before the market broke. See my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/4555580909/in/photolis....
These Yellow Tulips, though, wouldn't have fetched high prices in those days. Favored flowers were multi-colored and variegated. You might have had to sell your house to own one...