Tulips - the ancient Persians to the todays Holland
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Tulips - the most beloved and popular of all the spring flowers - came to us from the Middle East. There they were known and popular already in the XI century!
The name "tulip" borrowed from the Turkish word "turban", to be exact - to the Ottoman-Persian "tülbend" - the name of the tissue used in turbans. Tulips were very common in the Ottoman Empire. They are carefully cultivated, and the tulip bulb is constantly getting more expensive, so the Eleventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire had to issue a special decree on the fixed price of tulips bulbs!
At dawn, when dews bedeck the tulip's face,
And violets their heavy heads abase,
I love to see the roses' folded buds,
With petals closed against the wind's disgrace.
Omar Khayyam
The tulip came to Europe from Byzantium. The first tulips in Western Europe were planted in 1530 in Portugal. At that time only the kings and the aristocracy could have tulips. Tulips were very fond of the Austrian Emperor Franz II of, Richelieu, Voltaire, French King Louis XVIII.
The first copies of tulips in Holland appeared in 1570, and this was the beginning of infatuation tulips whole nation.
Now the Netherlands control 92% of the international trade in tulips. There is even a Royal General Bulb Growers' Association, they retain about 2,600 historic varieties of roses, including ancient varieties Duc van Tol Red and Yellow (1595) and Zommerschoon (1620).
Continuously updated global fund commercially cultivated tulips now has about 1,800 varieties and forms.
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