The History of the Tulips

It wasn't easy to increase the supply because of the way in which tulips were bred. If you wanted a tulip, which was going to break nicely, that is end up with nice stripes or speckles, you had to keep it in the ground for about 10 years. And so it wasn't so easy to do so. You could also buy a bulb, which had offsets, which had little other bulbs growing on them. Those were the most expensive bulbs, because that was a quick way to increase.