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Tulips from Amsterdam's famous flower market not living up to its name, says new probe

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THE HAGUE (AFP) - Tourists are being ripped off at Amsterdam's famous flower market, with just 1 per cent of all bulbs sold at the floating bazaar ever producing a blossom, investigators said on Tuesday (Oct 15).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

THE HAGUE - Tourists are being ripped off at Amsterdam's famous flower market, with just 1 per cent of all bulbs sold at the floating bazaar ever producing a blossom, investigators said on Tuesday .

"Millions of tourists and day-trippers are being duped," association chairman Rene le Clercq said in a statement. Today, the market comprises of a number of fixed barges with little greenhouses on top. Vendors not only sell tulip bulbs but also narcissus, snowdrops, carnations, violets, peonies and orchids.

Since first imported from the Ottoman Empire 400 years ago, tulips"have become our national symbol and the bulb industry a main player in the Dutch economy", said Mr Le Clercq.

 

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