I was about to remark that they grow an immense quantity of tulips in this country, which demand a harder soil.
Along each side of the courtyard ran a flower-bed, and in these Cai Tamblyn grew tulips and verbenas, according to the season, and kept them scrupulously weeded.
He was stooping over his tulips when Miss Marty told him of the Millennium.
Miss Marty's thoughts flew back at once to a corner cupboard in the parlour, inlaid with tulips in Dutch marqueterie, and containing the Major's priceless eggshell china.
It is these late May-flowering tulips of long stalks, like wands of tall perennials, that you can gather in your arms and arrange in your largest jars with a sense at once combined of luxury and artistic joy.
I had already tulips enough, suppose I had it to buy print gowns for Christmas presents to the women, which I had desired and could not afford?
Amaryllis bulbs were magnificent; fuchsias dropped with elegance; jonquils were shy and dainty; violets were good; hyacinths were delicious; tulips were splendid.
But Maria cherished some red and white tulips and a hyacinth in her kitchen window, as if they had been her children; and to Darry a white rose-tree I had given him seemed almost to take the place of a familiar spirit.
The gay tulipsand amaryllis held up a banner before me on which it was blazoned.
At any rate, I went home a satisfied child; and figuratively speaking, dined and supped off tulips and hyacinths, instead of mutton and bread and butter.
The grass was now of a delicious green, and the tulips and hyacinths and crocuses were in full bloom, in their different oval-shaped beds, framed in with the green.
It is like early love's imagining, That fragile pleasure which the Tulips bring, When suddenly we see them, in the Spring.
She was like, Lawrence thought, a most rare wild wood flower, some spiritual orchis or delicious and delicate geranium; in contrast to the severely trained, massive and immoveable tulips and camellias of society.
If you wish your tulipsto wake up gay, They must all be in bed by Lord Mayor's Day.
Footnote 6: The first bloom of seedling tulips is usually without stripes or markings, and it is often years before they break into stripes; till then they are called breeders, and are not named.
Red tulips would bloom between the boulders; exquisite glowing pelargoniums and snow-white or pale-blue iris would clothe the baked earth.
Tulips have always been favorite ornaments for the dinner-table.
For garden culture the single early tulips are the best.
The open-ground culture of hyacinths is the same as for tulips and other Holland bulbs.
Crocuses and tulips may stand two years, but hyacinths should be taken up each year and replanted; tulips also will be better for the same treatment.
While tulips are hardy, they are benefited by a winter mulch.
Late tulips are gorgeous, but occupy the beds too long in the spring.
Hyacinths are particularly useful for this purpose, because the bloom is less affected by cloudy weather than that of tulips and crocuses.
About these clumps one may plant bulbs of glowing tulips or dainty snowdrops and lilies-of-the-valley; and these may be followed with pansies and phlox and other simple folk.
Later periods of bloom succeed the Tulips at the Manor House, giving continuous color all summer to this charming place.
Early Tulipscome the first week of May, late Tulips about May 20.
The spring display of late Tulips at Highland Park and Lake Forest is especially remarkable.
In June and July the place is a glory with Lilies, Columbine, and Delphinium that are counted in hundreds, and earlier there are Tulips and Daffodils by the thousands.
The beds are early filled with the Tulips of both periods, blooming in company with the Wistaria.
The Crocus season opens in early March; Daffodils follow a little later; lateTulips and German Iris come near May 1; Sweet William and Peonies about May 20; and soon after the Delphiniums and Hollyhocks appear.
And he wrote, also, and told her of the thirty-five different kinds of tulips he had gathered, and of the inscriptions he caused to be cut on springs and rocks.
Doubtless he was; and yet before sunset that very day he must have been out on the hillside, possibly hunting for new tulips in this new country; for he descried a horseman making his way rapidly up the valley.
It was summer-time now, the roses were beginning to blow, the tulips were nigh over, but the wild pansies were in full blossom.
And when early spring came on, and the bears were breeding, he took to huntingtulips instead.
Why both recalled the multi-coloured tulips on the mountain slopes was a puzzle, except that one beauty recalled another.
His enquiries took him out often into the out districts which, now that spring was advancing were excessively pleasant, abounding in tulips and indeed in all plants of every description.
Some large blue china jars and parrot-tulips were ranged on the mantel-shelf, and through the small leaded panels of the window streamed the apricot-coloured light of a summer day in London.
The old woman was so fond of her tulips that she would never let one of them be plucked, and thus the Pixies were never deprived of their floral bowers.
But at length the old woman died; the tulips were taken up, and the place converted into a parsley-bed.
By their magic power they made the tulipsmore beautiful and more permanent than any other tulips, and they caused them to emit a fragrance equal to that of the rose.
So Guy came to plant tulips, and from plantingtulips to being asked to lunch was not far, and from finishing off a few left over to being asked to tea was not far, either.
Guy and the Rector pored over the tulips awhile, where in serried borders they displayed their somber sheen of amaranth and amethyst; then Guy strolled off to hear what was the news of Margaret and Richard.
A bee flew out from Pauline's room, an enviable bee which had been booming with indefinite motion for how long round and round the white tulips on her sill.
I climbed up to the top of the church tower to-day, and oh, the tulipsin your garden, and oh, the emptiness of that garden notwithstanding!
Tulips to go in next week," said the Rector, rolling the prospect upon his tongue with meditative enjoyment.
Moreover, when the tulips were all planted there were gladioli to be sorted and put away.
The crocuses and tulips had broken the black mould, the flower beds in the front yards were beginning to blaze with scarlet and yellow, the lawns had turned a living green.
Maisie thought perhaps the chintz with the cream and pink roses, or the one with the green leaves and red tulips and blue and purple clematis was the prettiest.
All evening Maisie's tulips stood up in the blue-and-white Chinese bowl on the table.
An armchair and a round table with a bowl of pink tulipson it stood in the centre of the bay.
And all four making tulipsas full-blown as could be!
How very much more charming different-coloured tulips are together than tulips in one colour by itself!
Last year, on the recommendation of sundry writers about gardens, I tried beds of scarlet tulips and forget-me-nots.
The forget-me-nots grow taller as the tulips go off, and will presently tenderly engulf them altogether, and so hide the shame of their decay in their kindly little arms.
The grass just there is filled with narcissus, and at the foot of the oak a colony of tulips consoles me for the loss of the purple crocus patches, so lovely a little while since.
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