The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 13th, 2000
Black tulip still a dream
By JOAN JACKSON
Knight Ridder News Service
Sunday, February 13, 2000
Except for black aphid on plums and black spot on roses, the color black gets little attention in the garden.
But Dutch hybridizers are working on their own specialty -- the elusive black tulip.
"Many have tried. A few have come close. But none has succeeded," says Salley Ferguson, of the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. "Call it the `Holy Grail' of the tulip world."
Back in the 1850s, when Alexander Dumas wrote "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Three Musketeers,...
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