affections of most people unto it ; and 

 what is this Toolip? An ill favour 

 wrapt up in pleasant colours ; as for 

 the use thereof in Physic no Physitian 

 hath honoured it yet with the men- 

 tion, nor with a Greek or Latin name." 

 Dryden had a few words of praise 

 for her; telling of a timid lass, — 



' ' Some fair tulip by a storm oppressed, 

 Shrinks up, and folds its silken arms to rest." 



If we wish, however, to see the 

 spot where the tulip is best loved, 

 where she has no evil quality attached 

 to her bright bells, we must go to 

 Devonshire, one of the garden spots 

 of England, a land of brightness and 

 bloom, where the country folk still 

 listen in the early spring for the 

 laverock singing on the rosebush, and 

 where clotted cream and strawberries, 

 with a cutting from a brown loaf, 

 seem a feast beyond all others. In 

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