New-York tribune., 1903-04-05

scarcely eighth gddr Of ,,naIef an lndh variation VIII
each SQUARE is planted entered year by year IN
tee eson of coors and varieties in the different flow
ers provided not only for the pleasure 2t tne pun
lie hrt tine good of the earth well. FOR groutld
nisnted ted Steadily in the small Holland bulbs be
comes o h osed ep with eraniums or savias daods
once in while to X asen Nat II ne 4b first of June life
is over in tupiand and the park gardeners @ s,us9 90
around with their sacks agaln c no more wc For few
Ssys then they are dried spread out ON floors or
ssyes tbnae in the skn park from G Hall Park
@ n the 96 o6 6he m Seds ee the
eTs themselves was aware of the fact. Sometimes
storms 1 WASH waTh ro whble IN non SQUARE When ten or
twelve bushels of valuable bulbs were seab,eIe1 ba
wishing fe rain that deinged the city the first
week in November.
THE SMALL BOYS PART
Sometimes too. and not by means infre-
auentlv small boys make ravages in some of the
lower squares and there many blank places
when green noses are counted the next spring
Strange say, however. they are rarely stolen
after their sharp pointed blue green leaves begin
to make their wide VS. over the face of the brown
Ioam Then at last they to "belong TO de
city, and acquire impressive value that dis
courages ''swiping." -,
Once, indeed. they stopped a runaway, these yei-
low and white and crimson cups with IN WI, "n1ch i r
fountain in Union Square surrounded each Apr
One day. the gala gowned crowds were pouring
out of old Grace Church. terrified horse, hair
TRANS and rows of vehicles between the cars end
across the grass covered square. and over the
fusbed for Of the yng Bride the horse halted
fefe br f0oo eoored Blossoms @ like connoisssu
gan nipping off their heads in every direction de.
horseship had been bred where these blossoms
wild and this hnt Of hSms ssGpPsf s h mouth IN
full of scarlet and gold he was led l nrs
Throughout Northern and Western Europe "a a
meadows npeede and around low lying lakes It IS deli
cate in coorng and d long ba Th se ole is slender
and pliabe. and the leaves are mucn ngmbr gb
out the lower part of Norway and Sweden and al
over the British Isles wild tulips are among % th t,e
middle of the sixteenth century one Conrad rad, th
ner brought a. s,ngig 1qlo The 70 tnp Whose name
comes from Turkish word meaning . turnan I1r Eor
some reason forever inexpca be lst the prdfbR RI fbe
Dutch character slipped cog a. slgnt en} Of sud-
6eniv wild over tulip culture The royal gardel'
Razed win er Iee epent in new varieties and the
savings of lifetime invested in few 6uIoT; o 3,,tch
farmer and his wife who at the height OF the na @
6aaa c6ange for Single rare bulb and found them
eeHas stranded few months later when the the
it5 CraSn vbnh fdle to face the darkening future.
TINE OF THE TULIP CRAZE.
Thirtv-six thousand forms each were once PAID
there for two tulip bulbs of the Semper AUG ustus
variety when there were only the two In all hol-
land one owned by Amsterdam ana one d
IJa-,.,, dealer An exchange of twelve acres or
building ground one carriage. two gray nofses
with harness and $500 horins' is also recorded
with a single tulip bulb in the balance regular
,,ar+s for tulip traffic establishes IN al tnS
rjncinal cities and extensive and intricate 'ild
the OPERATIONS of the dealers become that spetiai
coda of laws had be framed TO regulate lhS
trade A stock exchange was established and
stoc, iobbing in the innocent looking little oroWn
b,'Ibe exceeded ANYTHING ever before known to the
indnstrious little country in the gambling line a
sneciaI ofTice known Tulip Notary: was createu.
and later when the market broke there We're
I.ar,1- t1Iin defaulters.' Nobody knew, OF course
nv ar now the crash came but come it did. after
a few years of rotous prosperity small dealers eTs
Saced Starvation the fortunes OF many NOME
bonses were ruined beyond redemption, ana the