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Tulips and tulip bulbs are still one of our country’s most valuable export commodities. The Dutch became the world’s finest tulip experts. In the Netherlands, the goal of passing on these stripes to new tulip bulbs started the Dutch bulb cultivation. We now know that these are actually sick tulips, but not caused by a disease that can be passed from one bulb to another. The most popular tulip during the tulip mania were the flowers with a striped pattern. The tulip was the new status symbol of the elite and in 1637 the price of a tulip reached the level of a canal house.

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During this Golden Age, the Netherlands was very wealthy and the Dutch aristocracy transformed the Amsterdam canals into today’s beauty full of city palaces. The tulip mania which you have probably heard of happened during the 17th century. He had a wide network and helped to popularize the new colorful flower among the Dutch aristocracy. Carolus Clusius, a botanist who lived in Leiden in the sixteenth century, amassed a large collection of tulips and developed the first systematic garden in Leiden. A Turkish ambassador once brought them to western Europe as a present and they were an instant hit in the Netherlands. The tulip is originally from the Middle East.

How did the connection between the Netherlands and the tulip begin? The Netherlands is where the tulip originally got its special status and where it was subsequently refined into its present-day variety of multicolored flowers. The tulip does not originate from the Netherlands, despite persistent legends to the contrary. #3 Tulip Road Trip near Amsterdam The tulips in the Netherlands

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