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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.
33 25 fez: 'fez', named from the city of Fez in Morocco, where it is made a felt or cloth cap, dark red, with a tassel a mesure: 'in proportion as it fell , cf. note to 58 18. 34 3 Malte: 'Malta, an island in the Mediterranean, between Sicily and Africa, which has belonged to England since 1814. 34 9 comme en l'air: 'as if they were sailing in the air', cf. note to 29 22.
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