THE TULIP. 



This gay flower having been obtained from the Turks, 



was called Tulipa, from the resemblance of its corolla to 



the eastern head-dress called Tulipan or Turban, and hence 



our name of Tulip. To this resemblance Moore alludes in 



the following lines : — 



"What triumph crowds the rich Divan to-day 

 With turban'd heads of every hue and race, 

 Bowing before that veil'd and awful face, 

 Like Tulip-beds of different shape and dyes. 

 Bending beneath th' invisible west wind's sighs?" 



The Garden Tulip is a native of the Levant ; Linnseus 

 says, of Cappadocia. It is very common in Syria, and is 

 supposed by some persons, to be the Lily of the Field alluded 

 to by Jesus Christ. It is said to have been introduced into 

 England about the year 1580; for Hakluyt thus writes in 

 1582, "now v.'ithin these four years there have been brought 

 in England, from Vienna in Austria, divers kinds of flowers 

 called Tulipas." 



The Tulip, whose red veins 



Are flush'd with deeper, warmer stains, 



Glows in each leaf with more than Nimrod's fires. 



Anon. 



Down the Tulipas moisten'd cheek, 



Spread with Nature's warmest bloom, 



Sparkling drops of dew distil. 



Anon. 



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