The Tulip
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This exhibition focuses on the Netherlands' most famous and most beloved of flowers, the simple, yet beautiful tulip, and its attractio This exhibition focuses on the Netherlands' most famous and most beloved of flowers, the simple, yet beautiful tulip, and its attraction throughout the ages.
Extraordinary history This exhibition focuses on the Netherlands' most famous and most beloved of flowers, the tulip, and its extraordinary history, from first cultivation in the Ottoman Empire through tulip mania in the Dutch Golden Age - during which bulbs were sold for the price of entire canal houses in an astonishing precursor to an economic bubble - to becoming the star of North Holland's flower fields and symbol of the Netherlands.
The finest examples This being the botanical garden, the tales will, of course, be illustrated with some of the finest examples of its subject. Thousands of tulip varieties exist these days as a result of the human desire to shape the plant according to own tastes, and the Hortus showcases some of the most fascinating exemplars.
