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Definition of Tulips
1. tulip [n] - See also: tulip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tulips
Literary usage of Tulips
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"A pan of Murillo tulips, one of the few double varieties that are really ...
Solms-Laubach places the advent of double tulips at a much later date, 1665, ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"Munting mentions a man who won by this trade in tulips more than 60000 ...
Oft did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount of 2000 ..."
3. Aunt Jo's Scrap-bag by Louisa May Alcott (1877)
"<' T)LEASE, ma'am, will you give me one of -*- them red tulips?" The eager voice
woke Helen from her reverie, and, looking up, she saw a little colored girl ..."
4. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"It is really color-bedding with flowers, rather than leaves, for the leaves at
the early season when tulips bloom have hardly yet developed. ..."
5. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1841)
"Id. Mr. Walker's collection of tulips.—Mr. Editor:—In your January number of the
present year, pages 7 and 8,1 perceive you have noticed my tulips in ..."
6. Kindergarten Stories and Morning Talks by Sara Eliza Wiltse (1890)
"Black tulips, to be sure ! You never saw any black tulips ? Then I advise you to
look sharply at every bit of wood- carving you can find; for those very ..."
7. Flower Grouping in English, Scotch & Irish Gardens by Margaret H. Waterfield (1907)
"MAY FLOWERING tulips WHAT endless varieties there are of May flowering tulips,
Culture and what a delight they bring one every year ! ..."
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