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Definition of Darwin tulip
1. Noun. Any of several very tall, late blooming tulips bearing large squarish flowers on sturdy stems.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Darwin Tulip
Literary usage of Darwin tulip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1917)
"In the month of March and April we devote a great deal of space and room to the
cultivation of the Darwin tulip and the different daffodils. ..."
2. The Garden Month by Month: Describing the Appearance, Color, Dates of Bloom by Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, Robert Cameron (1907)
"... TULIP Darwin tulip Mid. to late May I' ta-iS Is. U Tulip. carinata Tulip.
“Darwin” May Late May U early June 13-55 IL 14-2 ft. ..."
3. The Well-considered Garden by Francis King, Louisa Yeomans King (1915)
"lavender Darwin tulip Reverend H. Ewbank. In my own part of the country it is
rarely that the Darwin or May-flowering tulip overlaps in time of bloom upon ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"A Darwin tulip See No. 12. date; stamens yellow; ovary prismatic; stigmas white,
not undulated. Habitat unknown. Vars. rubra and violácea, Hort., ..."
5. The Treasury of Knowledge and Library Reference by Samuel Maunder (1853)
"Darwin. Tulip-fancying has been carried to great excess. It is related that a
connoisseur in the fancy, hearing of a person having in his possession a black ..."
6. My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1916)
"Very lovely, too, is a pretty pink Darwin tulip Gretchen, planted in groups with
Florentine Iris in the neighbourhood of the scarlet-budded Crab, ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... foam flower, boulder fern, Darwin tulip, and obedient plant are good
illustrations—but who expects such " English " names as repand-leaved erysimum, ..."
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