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To: HeyRainier who wrote (720)	4/22/1998 2:02:00 AM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1720

Sure, here's a passage that seems appropriate: "The rage for possessing them soon caught the middle classes of society, and merchants and shopkeepers, even of moderate means, began to vie with each other in the rarity of these flowers and the preposterous prices they paid for them. A trader at Harlaem was known to pay one half his fortune for (them). One would suppose that there must have been some great virtue in this flower to have made it so valuable in the eyes of so prudent a people as the Dutch; but it has neither the beauty nor the sweet perfume of the rose--hardly the beauty of the 'sweet-sweet-pea;' neither is it as enduring as either." dh