TULIPA SUAVE'OLENS. 
SWEET-SCENTED, OR VAN THOLL TULIP. 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LILIACEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
S. Europe. 
9 inches. 
April. 
Perennial. 
in 1603. 
No. 175. 
The name Tulipa is believed to have been deri- 
ved from the Persian term tulipan, which signifies 
a turban — an eastern article of dress, sometimes 
made very similar to a well-shaped tulip. Sauve- 
olens, formed from the Latin suavis, sweet. The 
Dutch cultivate this early-flowering species under 
the name of Due Van Tholl, and the appellation is 
now pretty fully established with us. 
The Tulip, in Persia, is considered an emblem of 
perfect love ; or, according to Chardin, we should 
say, burning love ; for he observes that when a 
lover presents a tulip to the mistress of his affec- 
tions, he means to inform her, by the general colour- 
ing of the flower, that he is on fire with her beauty; 
and by the black anthers in its centre, that his heart 
is burnt to a coal. 
To recount the various extravagances into which 
the Dutch and French florists of the seventeenth 
century were carried, by their zeal and rivalry in 
the cultivation of the Tulip, and the effects arising 
out of this Tulipomania, or the game which it repre- 
sented, would occupy a large volume, independent 
of any further history of the plant. 
