Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-06-26
TULIPS A%O w. LIPS.
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''""s WISE" in Hnmorist.
lie var" +" up i supposed to hav"
''s'n' 'e' N 7, r., q. and signifies t"'-
an IA botany the tulip i c;;i!eu
'hT tJ. and Ic; they are not claimed Il
relation Of the lies. | always did
kc Lii Bron~ons two-lips they beat
the lilo all to nothing. The tulip is
an irr'E lar L"ll-,haped perianth OF : X
l'-t.nr' ~"~mcrts. without hectares -
/ ...'h >,-- l.. thr,r luhrd stigma. 4
,.r',-crrn.rrd car-.llr and fat seeds.
| Lc lAih j. iic-h,. q. -il red tulips are
ulc,l covered IL, I. hr"An skin.
IL" llu,liud"r> went crazy over tu
| lip in 1886 and 1867. when they sold as
high ~ one thousand three hundred
! '"liu- fora -in-l. bulb. The bulbs are
ro' cling ~ li%h just now. but some
/ t""lp- bring Il biz price. and always
| have It = generally Il matter of eX-
Irhau"" I.ir If two-lipo and heart
! Given even for another pair and heart.
/ business fairly active. market good.
stock left over i not deprcciating.
| Indeed. market may improve. as there
MAY be- more than home demand.
| caught Ell Virgins and Nancy
Bump exchanging two-lp> once in the
school-hnu~c entry. That was good
many wears ago. and | was not a. old
"a, now. They seemed very happy until
| the, SAW me. when she gave Bill = push.
sending him hard against the side of
the house. eNclaiming: There. get
away now" And She looked awful
mad at mc-and Bill did, too. WAS
too innocent to know why. 1t looked
good anyhow. while it lasted. Her
arms were about him, his about her,
and their two-lips Chats four lipS)
pressed together. Her two-lips were so
nice and red. and when she saw me
she was so mad. 1t was mysterious.
A few days after l caught big Tom
Russell trying the same exchange with
Jane Wheaton. end it was better than
circus. She soon let him understand
that she was not on his Exchange
list The way she didn't hold still.
The way She did >quirm and twist and
warm his ears was good fora cold day.
When he found he couldn't, he didn' t
want to; and, mad as he could hold,
asked her what she was making such a
fuss about. Her two-lips were ahead
of any of the Holland sort, and pretty
enough to eat. She laughed after she
got away-hc didn't.
| The tulip trade is still in the hands
Of the Ilollanders, and it is no uncom-
mon event for a new variety of extra
promise TO sell for twenty-five to one
hundred and fifty-forinS. Even in this
country Bill Bump paid the minister
who married him to Jane Wheaton S
two-lips twenty-five dollars. We know
a chap who would've doubled the
none, and been glad of the chance.
You see. She was smart and pretty.
There is the tulip tree that is COM
mon in the forests of some of the
Southern States. Ii j. of the magnolia
or6cr-somc relation TO our bass
woods but don't care for any bass
wood two-lip>. The tree grows one
hundred feet or more in height. did
know Linn girl who had awful nice
two-l lips she WAS not Eastwood (bass-
wood is linn. that's the way it goes).
Tulip tree leaves are round.sh. Ovatc.
threc-lobed. middle lobe obliquely trun-
| hS AOWCI tIlC JUMP
in size, form and appearance. Tulips
succeed best in a. dry, light,
somewhat sandy soil. Plant the
bulbs in October. They blossom
in early summer with school
ma am (no nicer twO-lips than school
mann nothing wooden about them
could stand them for steady diet longer
than tho calendar lasts. once over
heard Nat Moor tell Linda Morton that
hers were sweeter than honey, and she
| glggled. That was at school. Open
ears hear lots at school. and Linda she
never boxed his ears 4 bit. But the
next day when he told her that hers
was almost as sweet rs the school
ma am swell. you ought to have seen
her. His ears caught it. She spoiled
his hat first new plug-and made him
get. Don't think he said schoolma' am
to her again.
| The tulip is a native of the south of
Europe. but very fine ones are grown in
the United States. Wild tulips grow in
the woods; they are nice wherever
foand. New varieties are only pro-
duced from seeds-bulbs bringing the
same old sort. Tulips do not come to
their best in the shade; they require
sunshine-other sorts require sonshinr
too hot sunshine they can not endure.
hence the Use of sunshades. Tulips are
nice house plants 1t is a poor house
that can not make show in this line.
You often see them in the window
window plants.
Red two-lips are sign of health and
are sweetest. Two pair of two-lips
pressed together produce an osculatory
sound never yet described. 1t reminds
one of tearing calicos. but don't sound
a bit like it, and of pulling the stopper
ont of molasses jug, but it's lots
swcctcr.
| Our American winters are severe for
the tulip to survive unprotected out of
doors. Two-lips of any variety need
protection by sealskin sacque as far
north u. Milwaukee. BY a careful
study of the foregoing, admirers of
tulips will not be at loss to know the
| hest methods of monura,napt Peal, .