For a long period of time people used natural blooms, branches, foliage and other stuff in clothes, celebrations and homes adorning. One may see a lot of evidences of it in applied and ornamental arts, architecture, poetry and painting.
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Archaeological finds confirm the use of blooms by human already in the Bronze Age. One of the most ancient crocks, which could well be used for flowers, belongs to the mid Bronze Age. Long time ago, when for decoration were extensively used diverse natural materials, there were commonly used some twigs, blooms, leaves. And even today you may find that people are still eager to decorate their feelings with flowers, so you may send flowers in Russia using various web shops.
The blooms were widely used in ancient Egypt for adorning of castles, temples and during venerations. A great number of branches and other plants were used to adorn deities' statues. Such flowers as lotus were put before the images of god. Buddhist churches still have this tradition.
When English archaeologist H. Carter found in 1929 the tomb of Tutankhamen, the scientist was the most astonished not by a huge number of rich decorations, but by a modest garland of blooms placed by the young widow on her husband's breast. That garland was in a very well condition, so everyone might see what blooms were utilized in it. There were: fruits of poppy, black nightshade and “apples of love” that are fruits of mandragora.
Of course it's a well-known aspect that the Netherlands are a heart of flower production. It is true that the Dutch very like to be in the surrounding of flowers. These people grow their flowers not just in tiny vessels, but also on special vast fields. Sometimes, we can even claim that this love has grown in some kind of fanaticism. Flowers are the foundation of Dutch exports. The Netherlands became a paradise on earth and a second home for tulips. But tulips were not growing in the Netherlands from the very beginning of their existing. The Caucasus, China and Mongolia are those places that we may name native land of these flowers. So, one can still find here savage congeners of tulips. Straightly form the Caucasus they began their way to Europe. Today everything has become much easier and you may only write send flowers Russia into the search line and get any sort of flowers you would like.
Varietal tulips started their triumphant procession in Turkey. Persons loved to make huge beautiful pictures from tulips in the gardens of Constantinople. They were noticed in 1550 by the Austrian ambassador. The cultivation of those wonderful blooms so amazed him that he included the info about these flowers into his report to Vienna.
Some time later Swiss scholar Conrad Gesner and the head of garden herbs of Emperor Maximilian II Carolus Clusius met tulips and together depicted about fifty types of them. That Carolus Clusius later on went to the Netherlands where he received a proposal to be a chief of Leiden University's garden herbs and brought bulbs and seeds with him.
The gardeners of the Netherlands rapidly became interested in growing of those flowers. There're even evidences of attacks on Clusius' orchard. Stealers took those flowers to Austria, but it was pointless to fight against Holland in floriculture.
There began real madness in the country. People used pharmaceutical scales to weigh the bulbs of the flowers. As fast the madness has begun, so rapidly it has finished. The markets became overfilled with blooms and all the buyers that were willing to buy those flowers yesterday disappeared. The funds that were put in the flowers could not be restored and many families came to ruin. But the passion of Holland people to flowers still kept. A large number of hectares of drained Harlem lake is now a territory for tulips, daffodils, crocuses and hyacinths. Nowadays, you may dispatch flower to Russia with the assistance of different internet stores.
Posted on March 12th, 2009 | filed under Online Pharmacies |