My companion had hesitated for a moment, and then turned his horse's head through a gateway with a curious monogram in iron at the top, along an avenue of stately tulip-trees, and so to the door of a massive square mansion of red brick, which stood on a little knoll overlooking the James.

In the tulip the caudex lies below the bulb; from whence proceed the fibrous roots and the new bulbs; and I suspect the tulip-root, after it has flowered, dies like the orchis-root; for the stem of the last year's tulip lies on the outside, and not in the center of the new bulb; which I am informed does not happen in the three or four first years when raised from seed, when it only produces a stem, and slender leaves without flowering.

Boxtel, from childhood, had been a passionate tulip-grower.

The trees round Mapleton were looking like gigantic tulip beds, and breaking every hour into new phantasmagoria of color; and the great elm that overshadowed the red Pitkin farm-house seemed like a dome of gold, and sent a yellow radiance through all the doors and windows as the dreamy autumn sunshine streamed through it.

I sent him down by Gredel's nurseries on his way home to-night, for some tulip-bulbs for my iron jardinières.

One crowd that I saw looked like a great tulip garden in full bloom.

In dead silence the prince declared the occasion of the festival, the discovery of the wonderful black tulip, and concluded, "Let the owner of the black tulip approach.

Among these were mahogany of five different sorts, tulip-wood, satin-wood, cam-wood, bar-wood, fustic, black and yellow ebony, palm-tree, mangrove, calabash, and date.

She went to the wood-shed, groped about in the dark, found the stalk of the one tulip flower in its heap on the chip-pile.

There has been a sharp, cold shower, and there is still a strong rain-wind, which has snapped a score of tulip-heads.

Every one has heard of the tulip-mania of Holland,when the Dutchmen, nobles, farmers, mechanics, sailors, maid-servants, and even chimney-sweeps and old-clothes-women, dabbled in bulbs,when immense fortunes were staked upon the growth of a root, and the whole nation went mad about it, although there was never a bank nor a paper florin yet in existence.[C]

40 See there, untouched, your tulips strown, For I devoured the roots alone.'

One of thesea noble tulip-treerose in the centre of the enclosure and stretched its giant arms wide on every side.