12 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



land, where there are extensive farms devoted to the 

 culture of the splendid flower. In 1634, and three 

 years after, all Holland was crazy over the tulip! 

 This so-called tulipomania was finally ended by State 

 interposition. At one time a collection of fine bulbs 

 of one Wouter Brockholminster sold for $44,100. 

 The first tulip, it is said, came to Europe from Per- 

 sia, by way of Constantinople, in 1559. The taste 

 for tulips did not reach its height in England until 

 the close of the seventeenth century. The flower 

 ranges without restriction through the chromatic 

 scale, but excepts blue, although it suggests it in the 

 variety named Bleu Celeste. The varieties are sim- 

 ply endless. They flower successively through spring. 

 The tulip is a member of the Lily family. 



Blood-root. About the latter end of April, in the 

 Sanguinana valley of the Pemigewasset (the river 



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which gathers its crystal waters from 

 the southern slopes of the Franconia Mountains), be- 

 side the road, on the brink of the river, in moist pas- 

 tures, and beside the woodland brook, may be found 

 the beautiful, broad white flowers of the plant which 

 furnishes a famous specific for coughs and colds. 

 Long before I became acquainted with the plant I 

 had taken many drops of its orange-red blood on| 

 lump sugar. It is surprising that in three botanical| 

 books I found the juice described as crimson • for 



