THE TULIP.* 
BY B. J. LOOSING. 
Not one of Flora’s brilliant race 
A form more perfect can display ; 
Art could not fain more simple grace 
Nor Nature take a line away. 
Yet, rich as morn of many a hue 
When flushing clouds through darkness strike, 
The Tulip’s petals shine in dew, 
All beautiful, but none alike. 
Montgomery'. 
Tulips ! Twolips! what a delightful theme ! Beauty, grace, pas¬ 
sion, the purest offerings of the heart, the holiest memories, all bud 
and blossom in the mind by the Creative Power of the sweet name 
of Tulips—delicious, blooming Twolips. Who does not admire 
Tulips, aye, who that has a heart to love, does not at times most 
fervently worship Twolips. 
* The Tulip belongs to the Liliacee family, containing about a dozen species, mostly natives of 
the Levant, or adjoining countries of Asia. Their roots are bulbous—leaves, few in number and dis¬ 
posed about the base of the stem—the latter simple and usually terminated by a solitary flower 
The calyx is wanting—the corolla composed of six petals, and the stameni six in number. The 
most noted species is the common garden Tulip, (T. gesneriana) which was first introduced into 
European gardens by Conrad Gesner, who, in 1559 discovered it in the garden of an amateur at 
Augsburgh He had received it from Constantinople as a present from a friend. 
