Devil Take The Hindmost by Edward Chancellor (pg. 16)

The beginning of the tulpenwoerde, or what the Victorians called the tulipomania, is associated with the arrival in the tulip market around 1634 of outsiders who were apparently attracted by stories of rising prices for tulip bulbs in Paris and northern France. Among these entrants to the market–later dismissed by Dutch florists as the “new amateurs”–were weavers, spinners, cobblers, bakers, grocers, and peasants.