Assertion: tulip's popularity | /r/CapableOf | have started in earnest
Facets:
value: around 1593
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Its popularity and cultivation in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) is generally thought to have started in earnest around 1593 after the Southern Netherlandish botanist Carolus Clusius had taken up a post at the University of Leiden and established the hortus academicus.