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And
Van
Baerle
,
as
we
have
seen
,
locked
it
up
with
his
most
precious
bulbs
,
to
think
no
more
of
it
,
after
his
godfather
had
left
him
;
very
unlike
Boxtel
,
who
looked
upon
this
parcel
as
a
clever
pilot
does
on
the
distant
and
scarcely
perceptible
cloud
which
is
increasing
on
its
way
and
which
is
fraught
with
a
storm
.
Little
dreaming
of
the
jealous
hatred
of
his
neighbour
,
Van
Baerle
had
proceeded
step
by
step
towards
gaining
the
prize
offered
by
the
Horticultural
Society
of
Haarlem
.
He
had
progressed
from
hazel-nut
shade
to
that
of
roasted
coffee
,
and
on
the
very
day
when
the
frightful
events
took
place
at
the
Hague
which
we
have
related
in
the
preceding
chapters
,
we
find
him
,
about
one
o'clock
in
the
day
,
gathering
from
the
border
the
young
suckers
raised
from
tulips
of
the
colour
of
roasted
coffee
;
and
which
,
being
expected
to
flower
for
the
first
time
in
the
spring
of
1675
,
would
undoubtedly
produce
the
large
black
tulip
required
by
the
Haarlem
Society
.
On
the
20th
of
August
,
1672
,
at
one
o'clock
,
Cornelius
was
therefore
in
his
dry-room
,
with
his
feet
resting
on
the
foot-bar
of
the
table
,
and
his
elbows
on
the
cover
,
looking
with
intense
delight
on
three
suckers
which
he
had
just
detached
from
the
mother
bulb
,
pure
,
perfect
,
and
entire
,
and
from
which
was
to
grow
that
wonderful
produce
of
horticulture
which
would
render
the
name
of
Cornelius
van
Baerle
for
ever
illustrious
.
"
I
shall
find
the
black
tulip
,
"
said
Cornelius
to
himself
,
whilst
detaching
the
suckers
.
"
I
shall
obtain
the
hundred
thousand
guilders
offered
by
the
Society
.
I
shall
distribute
them
among
the
poor
of
Dort
;
and
thus
the
hatred
which
every
rich
man
has
to
encounter
in
times
of
civil
wars
will
be
soothed
down
,
and
I
shall
be
able
,
without
fearing
any
harm
either
from
Republicans
or
Orangists
,
to
keep
as
heretofore
my
borders
in
splendid
condition
.
I
need
no
more
be
afraid
lest
on
the
day
of
a
riot
the
shopkeepers
of
the
town
and
the
sailors
of
the
port
should
come
and
tear
out
my
bulbs
,
to
boil
them
as
onions
for
their
families
,
as
they
have
sometimes
quietly
threatened
when
they
happened
to
remember
my
having
paid
two
or
three
hundred
guilders
for
one
bulb
.
It
is
therefore
settled
I
shall
give
the
hundred
thousand
guilders
of
the
Haarlem
prize
to
the
poor
.
And
yet
--
--
"
Here
Cornelius
stopped
and
heaved
a
sigh
.
"
And
yet
,
"
he
continued
,
"
it
would
have
been
so
very
delightful
to
spend
the
hundred
thousand
guilders
on
the
enlargement
of
my
tulip-bed
or
even
on
a
journey
to
the
East
,
the
country
of
beautiful
flowers
.
But
,
alas
!
these
are
no
thoughts
for
the
present
times
,
when
muskets
,
standards
,
proclamations
,
and
beating
of
drums
are
the
order
of
the
day
.
"
Van
Baerle
raised
his
eyes
to
heaven
and
sighed
again
.
Then
turning
his
glance
towards
his
bulbs
,
--
objects
of
much
greater
importance
to
him
than
all
those
muskets
,
standards
,
drums
,
and
proclamations
,
which
he
conceived
only
to
be
fit
to
disturb
the
minds
of
honest
people
,
--
he
said
:
--
"
These
are
,
indeed
,
beautiful
bulbs
;
how
smooth
they
are
,
how
well
formed
;
there
is
that
air
of
melancholy
about
them
which
promises
to
produce
a
flower
of
the
colour
of
ebony
.
On
their
skin
you
can
not
even
distinguish
the
circulating
veins
with
the
naked
eye
.
Certainly
,
certainly
,
not
a
light
spot
will
disfigure
the
tulip
which
I
have
called
into
existence
.
And
by
what
name
shall
we
call
this
offspring
of
my
sleepless
nights
,
of
my
labour
and
my
thought
?
Tulipa
nigra
Barlœnsis
?
"
Yes
Barlœnsis
:
a
fine
name
.
All
the
tulip-fanciers
--
that
is
to
say
,
all
the
intelligent
people
of
Europe
--
will
feel
a
thrill
of
excitement
when
the
rumour
spreads
to
the
four
quarters
of
the
globe
:
The
grand
black
tulip
is
found
!
'
How
is
it
called
?
'
the
fanciers
will
ask
.
--
'
Tulipa
nigra
Barlœnsis
!
'
--
'
Why
Barlœnsis
?
'
--
'
After
its
grower
,
Van
Baerle
,
'
will
be
the
answer
.
--
'
And
who
is
this
Van
Baerle
?
'
--
'
It
is
the
same
who
has
already
produced
five
new
tulips
:
the
Jane
,
the
John
de
Witt
,
the
Cornelius
de
Witt
,
etc.
'
Well
,
that
is
what
I
call
my
ambition
.
It
will
cause
tears
to
no
one
.
And
people
will
talk
of
my
Tulipa
nigra
Barlœnsis
when
perhaps
my
godfather
,
this
sublime
politician
,
is
only
known
from
the
tulip
to
which
I
have
given
his
name
.
