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Tulips is a volume that celebrates the tulip in all its splendor. Featuring more than 75 color photo...
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Tulips is a volume that celebrates the tulip in all its splendor. Featuring more than 75 color photographs, Tulips is a visual feast for tulip fanciers. A brief introduction invites readers to contemplate the history of the tulip, from its origins in the Middle East, where it was revered as an emblem of love, through the madness of the Dutch tulipomania to the tulips present-day worldwide popularity as a harbinger of spring. The photographs that follow, shot by top garden photographers, offer beautiful images of many different varieties of tulips at every stage of bloom. Each image is accompanied by a snippet of verse or prose celebrating the beauty of the spring garden and the tulip's special place in it.
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