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After creating several new species, he set to work to create a black tulip, for which the Horticultural Society of Harlem had offered a prize of 100,000 florins. In the house adjoining that of van Baerle, lived another tulip-grower, named Boxtel, who had not the wealth of van Baerle, and could not attain the same success. He became envious of his more fortunate rival.

Alexandre Dumas - La Tulipe Noire