In the 1630s, a craze developed in Holland for this flower, with many investors paying huge sums for individual bulbs
Although 
many of today's investors are vaguely familiar with this tulip ... Men were known to 
have paid a fortune for a single bulb - not with the idea of... [DOC] [TLE] Crisis Chronicles: Tulip Mania, 1633-37 Liberty Street Economics [PAR] Sep 6, 2013 ... By the early 1630s, the tulip was a fixture in Dutch gardens.