Chapter

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