Word: tulip
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...serious gardeners as well as apartment dwellers with teeny window boxes, planting bulbs is one of autumn's sweetest pleasures. And just like fall fashions, bulbs are subject to crazes (as in the Dutch tulip bubble, circa 1630). Horticultural gurus say that this season, black, orange and fragrant bulbs are the ones to plant. While a truly black tulip has not yet been created, Black Hero (a deep crimson, below) and Black Parrot (a dark maroon) come close. If you want aroma and color, try Orange Princess or candy-striped Carnaval de Nice. Most bulbs can be bought from online...
...property development in the Chinese rust-belt city of Shenyang, agri-business tycoon Yang Bin decided he wanted the large greenhouses nearby filled with flora so visitors would get the impression the project was on track. Yang's farm experts protested there was no way to grow the requested tulip and orchid plants that quickly. Undeterred, Yang went out and bought them from local farmers, replanted them in the greenhouses and passed them off as his own. "If you work for a guy like this," says one of Yang's managers, "he pulls you from one surprise to the next...
NEXT TIME, I WILL HIT YOU WITH A TULIP...
...Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent, 1650, is composed with fanatical, emphatic strictness and gave rise to a whole dynasty of memorial church interiors. There were a few fine flower painters, like Balthasar van der Ast, whose elaborate portrait of variegated tulips in a vase could not, as the catalog interestingly points out, have been done from life. (At the height of the Dutch tulip mania, such rare blooms would never have been cut for a painter; he would have had to draw them in the garden.) One of Rembrandt's more...
...misery loves company, investors hammered by the current slump in tech stocks can take solace in the tale of one of the original financial bubbles. The "Tulip Mania" exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. (through July 23), displays a collection of watercolor paintings of tulips from the 1630s, along with intriguing information about the frenzy over them. During that decade, the price of a rare tulip bulb escalated to as much as 5,200 guilders. (By comparison, Rembrandt's fee for The Night Watch was 1,600 guilders.) Bulbs were used as dowries and exchanged for shiploads...