The legend of the tulip  

The legend of the tulip

Name of a flower comes from the Persian word «toliban», which means eastern headdress «turban».70th birthday gifts |

In these wild flowers grow - and grow - in many parts of Asia. The first will take them Turks. Even in HU1 century sultans wanted to have in their gardens, carpets of tulips alive a variety of colors (even then they were known more than 1300 species).metal double bed |

In Europe, tulip bulbs and seeds imported in 1554 natural scientist, envoy of Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I of Constantinople Oge de Byusbek. Originally Tulip gets the Vienna botanical garden of medicinal plants. Circa 1570 tulip was imported to Holland, where, and began his triumphal procession.lego |

Tulips have taken a great interest in France, Denmark, Belgium. But beyond all of Holland. Historical chronicles show: in 1625 the country reached tyulpanomaniya. By this time, there are already many new kinds of different colors, shades, shapes. Everyone wanted to grow your florist - unique - kind of. Fabulously grown and prices. With 1634 bulbs are sold by «mad» speculative prices at auctions. For example, one onion varieties «Semper Augustus» (tulip with white petals, painted a blue with red lines procherchennymi) pay huge amounts of money - 13 thousand guilders - bulb cost many times more expensive than gold. types of pine trees In two dozen years, the boom poutih, but the art of rare tulips in Holland passed from generation to generation.

In the second half of the century center HU11 breeding of tulips in Holland was the city of Harlem. It was there in 1672 was declared a reward of 100 thousand guilders to the person who will be able to grow a black tulip. It is able to well-known naturalist Dr. Burleigh. Look at him a rare flower, which he called «Rosa Burleigh» (on behalf of his wife) came and visited hundreds of people. However, it was still not quite a black tulip. As experts testified at the time, the flower Burleigh was very dark - almost black - lilac color (and many now believe that the black flower grow absolutely not impossible).

Since the end of HU111 century the most valuable types of steel-colored tulips and the flowers of several shades. Interestingly, only in 1928, it was found that the colored patterns are obtained when viral diseases flower. The disease is harmless to the development of plants and cause only a breach of the mechanism of photosynthesis.

Favorable growing conditions (soil and climate) contributed to the Netherlands became the second homeland of tulips and firmly holds the leading position as an industrial-scale cultivation, and on the size and fundamentality breeding work. The Netherlands took first place and to produce new varieties, and the export of onions. pin oak tree The biggest gain (more than two billion dollars annually) they receive from the trade in onions, which are exported to 125 countries. shumard oak tree In catalogs Dutch flower firms include 800 of the 2700 species known to botanists.

In Russia tulips brought in 1702 and since then, over two centuries, the bulbs were imported from Holland systematically. Only at the end of XIX century, the first tulips were grown directly in Russia.

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