CULTIVATION. 



TULIPA GESNERIANA. 



GARDEN TULIP. 



Class, HEXANDRIA. Order, MONOGYNIA. 



Natural Order, LILLI^. 



The tulip has long been a cultivated favourite. 

 The simple elegance of its form, and the splen- 

 dour and variety of its colours, have deservedly 

 ranked it as " the queen of the flower-garden." 

 Being one of the harbingers of summer, there 

 are many pleasing ideas associated with its ap- 

 pearance. As a child of returning spring, and 

 when all Nature revives, it is connected with 

 the hopes of man. Hence the tulip has always 

 had a distinguished place as a domestic ornament; 



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