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E.H. Krelage & Zoon: Special descriptive catalogue of Darwin
tulips. Catalogue descriptif des tulipes Darwin. Spezielles beschreibendes
Preisverzeichniss. No. 511 - 1891. Haarlem, (1891), pp. 8 (including illustrated cover), text-illustrations, folded folio (233 x 320 mm). Rather foxed, folds partly splitting and small inner corner of first leaf missing with loss of a few letters and decoration. Library stamp and numerals. € 220
Most important nursery catalogue introducing the new Darwin tulips to the
trade. "It is a matter of history that the introduction of the wonderful Darwin
strain by Messrs E.H. Krelage & Son of Haarlem, almost a quarter of a century
ago did more than all else to bring the Tulip race to the prominent position in
horticulture which its holds to-day" (Joseph Jacob: The Garden,
6-6-1914).* Ernst Heinrich Krelage: Drie eeuwen bloembollenexport. ‘s-Gravenhage, 1946, pp. 549-563. www.meemelink.com | index | E.H. Krelage |