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THE TULIPOMANIA.

A portrait of a man with an ornate tulip border.
CONRAD GESNER.

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Quis furor, ô cives!—Lucan.

The tulip,—so named, it is said, from a Turkish word, signifying a turban,—was introduced into western Europe about the middle of the sixteenth century. Conrad Gesner, who claims the merit of having

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