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Excerpt from Orchids: Their Structure, History and Culture
Fashion is proverbially variable, and its dictates always in?uence a large proportion of a community, particularly in regard to the ordinary customs of life; the fashion of dress is all important, but there 13 also a fashion in walking, talking, and writing, that varies with the age and gives distinctive characters to every generation. It is not, however, to these matters alone that fashion is confined, for it has in modern times extended its in ?uence to the plant world, and the ?oral favourites of one period have been proportionately neglected at another, being superseded by some in which more pleasing qualities have been discovered or imagined. The changeability has not been so great or so frequent in the latter case as in the former, but it has 1n several instances been equally unreasonable. Who has not heard of the notorious Tulip mania, which caused thousands of persons in Holland under the in?uence of a speculative madness to risk all their possessions in the purchase of bulbs that had acquired a grossly fictitious value? Like other bubbles of a similar character, it burst at last and ruined innumerable homes, but' this was a strikingly exceptional case, and happily we have had nothing of the same nature in the plant world since. Many families of plants have risen successively ln favour.
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