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Read the following passage carefully.

The historiography of the Dutch 'tulip mania' of 1636-1637 long relied upon Charles Mackay's nineteenth-century account, which famously framed the episode as a paradigm of irrational economic exuberance and mass hysteria. According to this traditional view, the speculative bubble was driven by naive traders who bid up the prices of tulip bulbs to ruinous heights, only to be financially devastated when the market inevitably collapsed. However, recent economic historians, most notably Peter Garber, have forcefully challenged this entrenched narrative, arguing instead that the pricing dynamics of the tulip market were largely rational and explicable through standard economic principles governing the pricing of rare, newly introduced agricultural commodities.

Garber demonstrates that the most exorbitant prices were reserved exclusively for 'broken' tulips—bulbs afflicted by a mosaic virus that produced striking, unpredictable patterns on the petals. Because this viral infection weakened the bulb and significantly reduced its reproductive rate, broken bulbs were inherently scarce. Moreover, the propagation of a specific broken pattern was a highly uncertain enterprise. Garber argues that the astronomical prices commanded by these unique bulbs represented a rational premium paid by wealthy collectors and specialized growers for exclusivity and the potential to monopolize a new, highly desirable variety. The market for these rarest bulbs was not a broad speculative frenzy involving the general populace, but a constrained market of specialized connoisseurs.

In contrast, the later, more volatile trading primarily involved 'pound goods'—common, uninfected tulip varieties traded in bulk. While prices for these common bulbs did spike in early 1637 before rapidly plummeting, Garber attributes this brief spike not to mass delusion, but to the sudden entry of novice traders reacting to imperfect information and the structural peculiarities of futures contracts newly introduced to the tulip trade. Crucially, because these contracts were legally unenforceable wagers rather than true futures, the actual financial ruin experienced by these traders was minimal; most defaults were settled for a negligible fraction of the contract price. Thus, the enduring myth of widespread macroeconomic devastation is entirely unsupported by the contemporary economic data, resting instead on moralizing pamphlets produced by Calvinist authorities eager to condemn the speculative enterprise.

Based on the specific details in the passage, which rational economic consequence or characteristic is logically inferred from Garber's analysis for each of the following entities or phenomena associated with the tulip trade? Match each entity to its corresponding consequence.