In the 1630s, a craze developed in Holland for this flower, with many investors paying huge sums for individual bulbs
paid 850 guilders for a single 
bulb of the ... to a flower dealer of the 1630s: In 1700 Henrik van Oosting's The 
Dutch... [DOC] [TLE] Market Crashes: The Tulip and Bulb Craze | Investopedia [PAR] The novelty of the new flower made it widely sought after and therefore fairly 
pricey.