Questions 30-39
% m7 Y$ v2 g+ z% b- }5 v8 g Tulips are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species
% b3 L% `! J2 n/ M8 m3 V [ lying in Central Asia. They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire 4 ]5 l* z, j: o+ e
from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after, part of European life as well. Holland, # v& r r- s, }# N! S# ]
Line in particular, became famous for its cultivation of the flower.
3 W3 W+ L4 Z9 n0 I3 q) _( } (5) A tenuous line marked the advance of the tulip to the New World, where it was
4 C7 S: J" J% b7 e1 T2 U2 _3 o unknown in the wild. The first Dutch colonies in North America had been established
5 M3 [9 l1 l. X% C in New Netherland by the Dutch West India Company in 1624, and one individual who
2 ]2 ~- z; W k4 A3 X" G3 L settled in New Amsterdam (today’s Manhattan section of New York City) in 1642 - r1 v5 Z" q ^: T( w' n! w6 F1 Y) G
described the flowers that bravely colonized the settlers’ gardens. They were the same ' m1 Z9 n7 z6 N. Q' {3 o
(10) flowers seen in Dutch still-life paintings of the time: crown imperials, roses, carnations,
+ F% A& G, M( f" e0 M and of course tulips. They flourished in Pennsylvania too, where in 1698 William Penn 4 K* e5 t0 c: A0 E
received a report of John Tateham’s "Great and Stately Palace," its garden full of tulips.
& }6 o" J+ h. I- M By 1760, Boston newspapers were advertising 50 different kinds of mixed tulip "roots." X- l: n. c8 I- `+ B
But the length of the journey between Europe and North America created many
( U/ U" D3 q! g2 [7 l- Y ] (15) difficulties. Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier for 9 a' U8 _/ X# q: F9 v9 [
a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter the following year grumbled that ; z) w6 ^6 \! ]/ t) D
they were all dead.
+ R5 q$ i& Y) A9 J' x, \ Tulips arrived in Holland, Michigan, with a later wave of early nineteenth-century ' ]% E/ T' L$ F* k( i& R6 X
Dutch immigrants who quickly colonized the plains of Michigan. Together with many
& l" }4 ?0 F' S (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 - Y6 J. Z2 W0 v \; t' M+ p
traveling salesperson. One Dutchman, Hendrick van der Schoot, spent six months in 1849
) B, c. F: d% o8 r traveling through the United States taking orders for tulip bulbs. While tulip bulbs were
; } s1 ]% |( n2 Z$ P; ?) h traveling from Europe to the United States to satisfy the nostalgic longings of homesick |
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