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Van
Baerle
began
by
expending
his
yearly
revenue
in
laying
the
groundwork
of
his
collection
,
after
which
he
broke
in
upon
his
new
guilders
to
bring
it
to
perfection
.
His
exertions
,
indeed
,
were
crowned
with
a
most
magnificent
result
:
he
produced
three
new
tulips
,
which
he
called
the
"
Jane
,
"
after
his
mother
;
the
"
Van
Baerle
,
"
after
his
father
;
and
the
"
Cornelius
,
"
after
his
godfather
;
the
other
names
have
escaped
us
,
but
the
fanciers
will
be
sure
to
find
them
in
the
catalogues
of
the
times
.
In
the
beginning
of
the
year
1672
,
Cornelius
de
Witt
came
to
Dort
for
three
months
,
to
live
at
his
old
family
mansion
;
for
not
only
was
he
born
in
that
city
,
but
his
family
had
been
resident
there
for
centuries
.
Cornelius
,
at
that
period
,
as
William
of
Orange
said
,
began
to
enjoy
the
most
perfect
unpopularity
.
To
his
fellow
citizens
,
the
good
burghers
of
Dort
,
however
,
he
did
not
appear
in
the
light
of
a
criminal
who
deserved
to
be
hung
.
It
is
true
,
they
did
not
particularly
like
his
somewhat
austere
republicanism
,
but
they
were
proud
of
his
valour
;
and
when
he
made
his
entrance
into
their
town
,
the
cup
of
honour
was
offered
to
him
,
readily
enough
,
in
the
name
of
the
city
.
After
having
thanked
his
fellow
citizens
,
Cornelius
proceeded
to
his
old
paternal
house
,
and
gave
directions
for
some
repairs
,
which
he
wished
to
have
executed
before
the
arrival
of
his
wife
and
children
;
and
thence
he
wended
his
way
to
the
house
of
his
godson
,
who
perhaps
was
the
only
person
in
Dort
as
yet
unacquainted
with
the
presence
of
Cornelius
in
the
town
.
In
the
same
degree
as
Cornelius
de
Witt
had
excited
the
hatred
of
the
people
by
sowing
those
evil
seeds
which
are
called
political
passions
,
Van
Baerle
had
gained
the
affections
of
his
fellow
citizens
by
completely
shunning
the
pursuit
of
politics
,
absorbed
as
he
was
in
the
peaceful
pursuit
of
cultivating
tulips
.
Van
Baerle
was
truly
beloved
by
his
servants
and
labourers
;
nor
had
he
any
conception
that
there
was
in
this
world
a
man
who
wished
ill
to
another
.
And
yet
it
must
be
said
,
to
the
disgrace
of
mankind
,
that
Cornelius
van
Baerle
,
without
being
aware
of
the
fact
,
had
a
much
more
ferocious
,
fierce
,
and
implacable
enemy
than
the
Grand
Pensionary
and
his
brother
had
among
the
Orange
party
,
who
were
most
hostile
to
the
devoted
brothers
,
who
had
never
been
sundered
by
the
least
misunderstanding
during
their
lives
,
and
by
their
mutual
devotion
in
the
face
of
death
made
sure
the
existence
of
their
brotherly
affection
beyond
the
grave
.
At
the
time
when
Cornelius
van
Baerle
began
to
devote
himself
to
tulip-growing
,
expending
on
this
hobby
his
yearly
revenue
and
the
guilders
of
his
father
,
there
was
at
Dort
,
living
next
door
to
him
,
a
citizen
of
the
name
of
Isaac
Boxtel
who
from
the
age
when
he
was
able
to
think
for
himself
had
indulged
the
same
fancy
,
and
who
was
in
ecstasies
at
the
mere
mention
of
the
word
"
tulban
,
"
which
(
as
we
are
assured
by
the
"
Floriste
Francaise
,
"
the
most
highly
considered
authority
in
matters
relating
to
this
flower
)
is
the
first
word
in
the
Cingalese
tongue
which
was
ever
used
to
designate
that
masterpiece
of
floriculture
which
is
now
called
the
tulip
.
Boxtel
had
not
the
good
fortune
of
being
rich
,
like
Van
Baerle
.
He
had
therefore
,
with
great
care
and
patience
,
and
by
dint
of
strenuous
exertions
,
laid
out
near
his
house
at
Dort
a
garden
fit
for
the
culture
of
his
cherished
flower
;
he
had
mixed
the
soil
according
to
the
most
approved
prescriptions
,
and
given
to
his
hotbeds
just
as
much
heat
and
fresh
air
as
the
strictest
rules
of
horticulture
exact
.
Isaac
knew
the
temperature
of
his
frames
to
the
twentieth
part
of
a
degree
.
