THE TULIP. 
This gay flower having been obtained from the Turks, 
was called Tulipa, from the resemblance of its corolla to 
the eastern head-dress called Tulipan or Turban, and hence 
our name of Tulip. To this resemblance Moore alludes in 
the following lines :— 
“What triumph crowds the rich Divan to-day 
With turban’d heads of every hue and race, 
Bowing before that veil’d and awful face, 
Like Tulip-beds of different shape and dyes, 
Bending beneath th’ invisible west wind’s sighs?” 
The Garden Tulip is a native of the Levant; Linnaeus 
says, of Cappadocia. It is very common in Syria, and is 
supposed by some persons, to be the Lily of the Field alluded 
to by Jesus Christ. It is said to have been introduced into 
England about the year 1580; for Hakluyt thus writes in 
1582, “now within these four years there have been brought 
in England, from Vienna in Austria, divers kinds of flowers 
called Tulipas/ 
The Tulip , whose red veins 
Are flush’d with deeper, warmer stains, 
Glows in each leaf with more than Nimrod’s fires. 
Anon. 
Down the Tulip’s moisten’d cheek, 
Spread with Nature’s warmest bloom, 
Sparkling drops of dew distil. 
Anon. 
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