Growing tulips

Tulip is in the culture of a very long time. Flower named lale, both in the Turkish language is called a tulip, was praised as far back as 1390 the great Persian poet Khafizov. In Iran, until now one of the most beautiful and popular female names considered Lale. The beauty of tulips has been repeatedly praised in his poems and Alisher Navoi:Massive Choice of debt management |

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A tulip is another name - dolbend. This is a Persian word means headdress, similar to a tulip bud.

Tulip halo is surrounded by legends and incredible stories. In Uzbekistan, there was a belief on the blue tulips. Each spring it blooms in the mountains, and one who will find it to be good luck and happiness. On the Kazakh steppe tulips Kolpakovskogo comes a legend. Once in flower, it was hidden happiness. Nobody has been able to reveal the golden bud and get happiness. But once the child saw a flower, touched him. And the miracle happened - Bud revealed and released at the will of human happiness.

Tulips portrayed in paintings, carpets included in the pattern painted on a dish in their honor satisfied holidays. This custom has passed in several European countries. According to ancient custom in the Netherlands each year is arranged a spring festival of colors, including tulips have a place of honor.

In ancient Turkish tulip was considered a sacred flower and symbolize the beauty. That is why Turkish painters often portrayed on the pages of his poetry books. In the XVII century in Turkey, much attention was paid to design the palace flower beds.

On the territory of the principal residence of the Sultans - Top Capua (near the Bosphorus) was a famous garden of tulips. " The first third of XVIII century in the history of Ottoman Turkish State chronicler called the "age of tulips." In the reign of Ahmed III of the court aristocracy, it was a fashionable hobby tulips.

In Europe, tulip appeared around 1554. Ogerius Gislenium Busbek, Ambassador of Emperor Ferdinand I, with the Sultan of Turkey, for the first time I saw tulip somewhere near Constantinople, when he was in one of his visits to the country. Buying seeds and tulip bulbs, he sent them to Western Europe. In his travel notes Busbek made this remark: "... On the way we all met a lot of daffodils, hyacinths, and flowers, which the Turks call tulipam ..."

The founder of the Dutch culture of onion plants was professor of botany from Leiden Karolusom Kluziusom (1526-1609). Around 1570, he imported tulip to the Netherlands. Through his garden in a variety of mating and friends sending seeds and bulbs of tulips, Karolus Kluzius contributed to the spread of the most beautiful flower in Europe. Gained widespread acceptance, tulips very quickly become your favorite flower Dutchmen. In Holland, it was removed a huge number of varieties. Until now, the Netherlands - the main exporter of tulip bulbs and flowers to all corners of the world. Today, anyone can order a road of tulips from Holland and tulips to get seeds for breeding.

In 1637 tulip became the second exchange. When the Dutch began to propagate tulips, they saw in them a source of large income, as in all the fashion. Anyone buying a flower has already been thinking only about how it would подороже sell. The prices of tulip bulbs grew and grew. But the tulip blooms only 3 weeks of the year, the rest being in the ground. A trade does not tolerate downtime, and tulips began to sell, vykapyvaya, in the form of securities. Went hand in the cash receipts have not yet derived class. In fact, it was the replacement of cash securities. For example, a "tulip" bourse.

Holland reached the speculative fever - tyulpanomaniya "and the delicate flower has become the object of speculation. It is not clear what it all ended, though in 1637 the Dutch government would not have passed a law prohibiting speculation in tulip onions. All such transactions have been severely punished by law. Since tulip has once again become a garden flower.