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Would you trade your house for a single flower?  Of course not.  But in Holland’s Golden Age of the early 1600s, some people did,  A single tulip bulb could have the same value as the annual income of ten skilled artisans!  Join Marilyn McPhie for a look at the history of these beautiful flowers – and what the Tulip Mania had to do with art, a botanical virus, the bubonic plague, outrageous stories, and the rules of international finance.