"People got wiped out." The flowers that cost more than houses Of bulbs and bubbles The enduring power of so-called Tulip Mania means it still gets trotted out in 2018 when people talk about ...
But, in the early 1600s, the price of tulips just kept on rising. As Anna Pavord writes in The Tulip, the flower was "the ultimate status symbol, the definitive emblem of how much you were worth." ...