Chapter

 1 5 |         of Mynheer van Baerle's tulips; and his beds, pits, drying-rooms,
 2 5 |   result: he produced three new tulips, which he called the "Jane,"
 3 5 | peaceful pursuit of cultivating tulips. ~Van Baerle was truly beloved
 4 5 |        had come to see Boxtel's tulips. At last he had even started
 5 5 |    carnations, but with growing tulips -- had, on seeing the Boxtel
 6 5 |     degree from his neighbour's tulips. ~The law was for Van Baerle,
 7 5 |       much sun was injurious to tulips, and that this flower grew
 8 5 |     with bulbs and seedlings of tulips for the border, and tulips
 9 5 |      tulips for the border, and tulips in pots; in short, with
10 5 |        very curious fanciers of tulips at two thousand francs a
11 5 |         for the sake of painted tulips, but for real ones, that
12 6 |     moment Boxtel's interest in tulips was no longer a stimulus
13 6 | succeeded in growing the finest tulips. Indeed; he knew better
14 6 |      Mynheer van Baerle and his tulips, therefore, were in the
15 6 |     every vein of the flowering tulips, and meditated on the modifications
16 6 |    observe in Van Baerle's beds tulips which dazzled him by their
17 6 |       up for the defence of his tulips! ~But to kill a tulip was
18 6 |        noble science of growing tulips, which he seemed to master
19 6 |         symmetrical rows of his tulips to be completely disordered,
20 6 |     with joy. Fifteen or twenty tulips, torn and crushed, were
21 6 |      rival! Not one of the four tulips which the latter had meant
22 6 |    cross-breeding to reduce the tulips which he had grown already
23 6 |     this is not a treatise upon tulips in general; it is the story
24 6 |         in their cases, and his tulips to wither in the borders
25 6 |      the stalks of Van Baerle's tulips, quenched his thirst with
26 7 |        the pictures down to the tulips. He thanked his godson for
27 7 |         the autumn of 1671. The tulips, like true daughters of
28 7 |       himself to the culture of tulips ventured no longer to put
29 7 |       young suckers raised from tulips of the colour of roasted
30 7 |       already produced five new tulips: the Jane, the John de Witt,
31 7 |         but I should fall on my tulips." ~"Never mind, jump out." ~
32 8 |       of keeping watch over the tulips in his garden. ~Now in that
33 11|       observed that the love of tulips agreed perfectly well with
34 11|      Baerle is a great lover of tulips, or a great lover of politics;
35 11|    having occupied himself with tulips is proved by the bulbs which
36 11|     concerned in the growing of tulips and in the pursuit of politics
37 11|       ardour at politics and at tulips, which proves him to belong
38 12|        thought of the beautiful tulips which he would see from
39 12|      having thought too much of tulips. ~"It is only one stroke
40 12|         the soil so bad for the tulips! And then Rosa will not
41 16|    hurry for it, dear Rosa; our tulips need not be put into the
42 16|       chat with Cornelius. ~The tulips, concerning whose cultivation
43 16|        cannot always talk about tulips. ~They therefore began to
44 16|      besides the cultivation of tulips." ~"Yes, yes, and I am as
45 17|  himself. "You may have as many tulips as you like: I have three
46 17|          To the devil with your tulips!" cried Cornelius; "you
47 18|        I understand anything of tulips? I only know -- as unfortunately
48 18|        I see that you love your tulips with such love as to have
49 18|        either of Rosa or of his tulips. ~We have to confess, to
50 19|        as the precise time when tulips ought to be planted. He
51 20|         best fitted for growing tulips, that I know it as well
52 25|       character as queen of the tulips, might send ambassadors. ~"
53 25|        far as the honour of our tulips is concerned. Go, my child,
54 27|      now for twenty years grown tulips at Dort. I have even acquired
55 27|     show at Dort of cultivating tulips to hide his political intrigues,
56 31|         wild about flowers, and tulips received their full share
57 31|       flowers in general and of tulips in particular, at a period
58 31|        the very purest ideal of tulips in full bloom, -- Haarlem,
59 32|          is to-day the feast of tulips?" ~"Yes, sir; but as this
60 33|  anything beyond new colours of tulips." ~And, casting a glance
61 33|     Appointed to watch over the tulips, the old man made the rudest
62 33|     attached to Rosa and to his tulips. The whole of his life was