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Evans-King Floral & evanskingfloral.com, a retail flower shop in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania hopes that Flower Power will give you a unique outlook on the power that fresh cut flowers have on everyone!

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Tulips


Tulip Tale: An early 17th century bill of sale recorded the following transaction for one single Tulip bulb:


Two loads of wheat
Four loads of rye
Four fat oxen
Eight fat swine
Twelve fat sheep
Two hogsheads of wine
Four barrels of beer
Two barrels of butter
1,000 pounds of cheese
A marriage bed with linens
A sizeable wagon to haul it all away.

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