Questions 30-39
( Z$ [3 n0 e& T, Y8 F9 e; } Tulips are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species 9 z$ i- _8 u1 q- W
lying in Central Asia. They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire
. {3 h/ }0 N/ n1 H+ c' p from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after, part of European life as well. Holland,
9 t8 K5 a* C4 q3 }" N, ] Line in particular, became famous for its cultivation of the flower. 3 R0 ~: M; i/ Y
(5) A tenuous line marked the advance of the tulip to the New World, where it was 7 O* G7 O7 M- @) S$ g
unknown in the wild. The first Dutch colonies in North America had been established
' E2 `- j) w, f in New Netherland by the Dutch West India Company in 1624, and one individual who " `9 N$ U5 W- }. D6 y1 t
settled in New Amsterdam (today’s Manhattan section of New York City) in 1642 , V! I& c& e% y
described the flowers that bravely colonized the settlers’ gardens. They were the same - `7 F6 Z( L3 [$ Y
(10) flowers seen in Dutch still-life paintings of the time: crown imperials, roses, carnations, " D9 u5 E0 F5 B/ T
and of course tulips. They flourished in Pennsylvania too, where in 1698 William Penn : N3 p' ~+ ?& K( f' E# ]
received a report of John Tateham’s "Great and Stately Palace," its garden full of tulips. ; U; }: b" M) r4 T8 @
By 1760, Boston newspapers were advertising 50 different kinds of mixed tulip "roots." & c6 C q4 J" v8 @1 }' }$ T
But the length of the journey between Europe and North America created many $ K) X$ j) |* F' N) a8 N3 q1 L1 N
(15) difficulties. Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier for
* E/ {; u4 c8 u# F1 s5 |: g/ H2 I h a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter the following year grumbled that
+ ]7 `. D# a, W/ D5 S" w; t; \ they were all dead. 2 B7 |% \8 R9 Z
Tulips arrived in Holland, Michigan, with a later wave of early nineteenth-century 1 M# r3 o" y$ g9 v1 t9 V4 }: g
Dutch immigrants who quickly colonized the plains of Michigan. Together with many + k8 h: K5 S2 k6 t9 k3 V! h/ s+ P
(20) other Dutch settlements, such as the one at Pella. Iowa, they established a regular demand for European plants. The demand was bravely met by a new kind of tulip entrepreneur, the / B( ]+ v6 i6 X" v9 h; e1 Y d' `0 O
traveling salesperson. One Dutchman, Hendrick van der Schoot, spent six months in 1849
3 ^- n1 H4 {1 v. v& \ traveling through the United States taking orders for tulip bulbs. While tulip bulbs were
5 d+ X# Q: e; w3 ? traveling from Europe to the United States to satisfy the nostalgic longings of homesick |
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