Homeland tulips - Persia. The first mention of them belong to the XI-XII centuries. From Persia, tulip came to Turkey and became there favorite flower. Selection and cultivation of tulips - "Lale" - the inmates involved in harems. Tulips those times were mostly red, low, with thin weak stems. Familiar to us the richness of colors and species tulips got away from their homeland - in Europe. In Europe, tulip bulbs were introduced in 1554 Oge de Byusbekom,. Ambassador Kaiser Ferdinand I of Constantinople. Byusbek brought the tulips in his native Austria in Vienna garden of medicinal plants. Director of the Vienna Garden professor Kluzius interested in this plant. Not only did he himself engaged in the breeding of tulips, but also actively sent seeds and bulbs across Europe. A golden age of tulips. New flowers have appeared in England, France, Holland and Germany and received universal recognition. In the wealthy, a new hobby - collecting tulips. Gardeners worked hard at breeding, their work generously paid. Tulips are great lovers of Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIV, Voltaire and many other famous personalities. By the way, bluish-purple with a bronze border, sort of "Louis XIV» can be found in the collections of flower growers in our days. No other flower can not "boast" that their honor feast with the demonstration of new varieties! Apogee passion for tulips in Holland reached. Soil and climatic conditions of the country relished tender for Asian semidesert. Noble nobles and wealthy merchants sought to decorate your garden a lush bed of tulips. For new varieties of onions were paid very dearly. And a century after the appearance of tulips in Europe was put black tulip. In honor of this in 1637 in Harlem, flower capital of Holland, was declared a holiday. Nowadays "tyulpanomaniya became distant history, but now the Netherlands ranks first in the world for growing flowers and planting material of tulips.
In Russia, the tulips arrived only in time of Peter I and not from the Central Asian steppes, and from the distant Holland. It is difficult to believe that before the end of XIX century in Russia, the tulips were an exotic, planting material is grown, and is issued from abroad, and admire the current staple in our spring flower beds could only be a very wealthy person.
Strictly speaking, the tulip is no longer a harbinger of spring. In tulips flower shops you can buy from the end of November - distillation technology worked to perfection. But still blooming apple orchard and a flower bed of red tulips under them will always be a symbol of the awakening of nature
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