Sometimes they would creep under the tulip-tree, and would sit there with their arms round one another's necks, and their soft cheeks touching, a-reading about the Prince and the Dragon, and the good and bad enchanters, and the king's fair daughter.

" The "tulip tall," "the Naiad-like lily," "the jessamine faint," "the sweet tuberose," were all "ministering angels" to the "companionless Sensitive Plant," and each tried to be a source of joy to all the rest.

The sides of the hills are generally covered with oaks and hickory, or wild walnuts, cedar, sassafras, and the famous laurel tulip, which is esteemed one of the most beautiful trees in the world.

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.

She stooped to pick the last tulip of the bunch she was gathering for Anne.

" "The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances: he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.

As you may be more fastidious in singing mere silliness, and a string of well-sounding images without sense or coherenceDrums of Tartars, who use none, and Tulip trees ten foot high, not to mention Spirits in Sunbeams &c,than we are, so you are at liberty to sacrifice an enspiriting movement to a little sense, tho'

Or the baker, if I went and said, 'This tulip for a loaf of bread, God's beauty for your kneaded grain;' Or the vintner'For this flower of mine A flagon, pray, of yellow wine, And you shall keep the change for gain.'

Julia chose a tulip, and Lizzie a rose.

We have found the wild tulip, the primrose, the lupine, the eardrop, the larkspur, and creeping hollyhock, and a beautiful flower resembling the blossom of the beech tree, but in bunches as large as a small sugar loaf, and of every variety of shade, to red and green.

he was by when the Tulip Mania was hatched, (mixed figure,) and it was he who punctured the great South Sea Bubble, and sent it on a burst.

A living plant owes its brilliant hues to the sunshine; but a dead one, or the tints extracted from it, will fade in the same rays which clothe the tulip in crimson and gold,as our lady-readers who have rich curtains in their drawing-rooms know full well.

The white tulip.

The Bobbsey Twins in Tulip Land.

The Bobbsey Twins in Tulip Land.

Iris, (Kashmiri, Krishm) Succeeds the tulip and precedes the rose as typical of Kashmirian Flora, is used as fodder, and the fibre makes ropes, which are, however, not durable.

THE INDIGO BIRD (THE BLUE CANARY) "Blue birds and blue flowers are both rare; you can count our really blue birds on the fingers of one hand, and a Blue Canary is even stranger than a green rose or a black tulip.

Small two-tier tables of tulip wood with delicate mountings were quite the rage, and small occasional pieces, the legs of which, like those of the chairs, are occasionally curved.

Does it please you, Cousin George?" I looked into her bright eyes and said that it pleased me more than I dared say, and she laughed and ran up-stairs, calling back to me that I should order our horses and tell Cato to tell Tulip to fetch meat and claret to the gun-room.

"Tulip," I said, "come here!"

"Aunt Tulip," I said, gravely, "are you voodoo?" "Folks says ah is, Mars' Ormon'," she said, in her soft Georgia accent.

Look at me, Aunt Tulip.

" "Is there no hope, Aunt Tulip?

"There's beer in the buttery," she said, laughing; "and if you smile at Tulip she'll see you starve not.

And tell Tulip she is right.