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crowns it, with the streaks of gold, silver, purple, 
red, and the innumerable tints which revel, unite, 
and part again, on the surface of those rich petals. 
And sure more lovely to behold 
Might nothing meet the wistful eye, 
Than crimson fading into gold 
In streaks of fairest symmetry. 
Langhorn. 
The bulb or root of the Tulip resembles in every 
respect the bud of other plants, except in being 
produced under ground, and includes the leaves 
and flowers in miniature, which are to be expanded 
in the ensuing spring. By the careful dissection of 
a Tulip-root, and cautiously cutting through its 
concentric coats, lengthwise from top to bottom, and 
taking them off successively, the whole flower of the 
next summer with all its parts may be discovered by 
the naked eye. A popular poet has alluded to this 
circumstance in these lines, written " On planting a 
Tulip-root:" 
Here lies a bulb the child of earth, 
Buried alive beneath the clod, 
Ere long to spring, by second birth, 
A new and nobler work of God. 
