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Tulip. 
Culipa Gesneriana. Narurar Orver: Liliacee—Lily Family. 
We 
J” URICH was the birthplace, and March 26, 1516, the birth- 
day, of the celebrated Swiss naturalist, botanist and scholar, 
Conrad Gesner, from whom this variety of the Tulip derives 
its distinctive name. It is a purely oriental flower; its tex- 
, ture,.its depth of color, and even its shape, suggest to the 
“#2? mind the glories of the far-off eastern climes whence it has 
its birth. It is of Persian origin, and the native name, dulband, 
9,2. from whence its synonym in our language is derived, signifies a tur- 
G£ ban, after their own peculiar national head-dress. The Tulip was 
> introduced into Europe by Gesner, since whose time its cultivation 
has received the most indefatigable attention. Under European taste, 
skill and care, the number of varieties has grown to over seven hun- 
dred; and the colors into which it has sported are many and mag- 
nificent. In old records it is found that in the year 1637 one hundred and twenty 
Tulips were sold at public auction for nine thousand guilders—equal to thirty-six 
hundred dollars. There is a species of wild Tulip quite common in the woods 
and vineyards of Germany. In Siberia the bulbs are used as food, although bitter 
and acrid. 
Declaration of Jroug, 
ELEN, I love thee; by my life I do; 
I swear by that which I will lose for thee 
To prove him false that says I love thee not. 
—Shakespeare. 
| AM filled with such amaze, EAR art thou to me now as in that hour 
So far transported with desire and love, When first love’s wave of feeling, spraylike, broke 
My slippery soul flies to you while I speak. Into bright utterance, and we said we lov’d. 
—Rochester. —Bailey, 
DARE not linger near thee as a brother, 
I feel my burning heart would still be thine; 
How could I hope my passionate thoughts to smother, 
When yielding all the sweetness to another 
Which should be mine. —Amelia B. Welby. 
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