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Title: Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Subjects: Sundials Roses Rosicrucians
Publisher: New York London : Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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that a true love of flowers is in general alliedto a love for the philological derivation of the plantname, and at any rate with a desire to know the his-tory of the plant. Of course I have a special interestin the Tulip because I knew it in Persia when Ilived there in my first incarnation in that land ofsunlight and flowers. Many books have been written upon Roses andLilies. There is a Daffodil book, a Crocus book,but none on the Tulip, though it has had a his-tory worthy of extended record, — a more varied andextended history, indeed, than has the Daffodil.But the Tulip, though admired by all — by nearlyall — and certainly beloved of the Dutch people,is not a flower of sentiment, as is the Rose, theDaffodil, the Lilac, the Pansy. The Dutch peopleshowed their admiration for the Tulip in manyways subordinate to the incontrovertible one ofplacing their liking on a moneyed basis; theyused it as the chief of decorative work whether inwoodwork, pottery, painting, or embroidery. The
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Sun-dial in Yard of Friends Meeting-house, Germantown,Pennsylvania. Symbolic Designs for Sun-dials 203 Tulip is a curious design, not only in the elaboratecrewel embroidery of bed-hangings and petticoats,but in quilts of patchwork piecing, in homespunand home-woven bed coverlets of linen and wool,and also in a curious knitted stitch used in counter-panes, bed valances, and the like. The Tulip wasas omnipresent in worsted and metal within Dutchdoors as it flaunted in scarlet and yellow bloom inDutch borders. It was seen in Dutch metal work,stamped in brass, and wrought in iron; and I havea pewter teapot incised with a Dutch motto andTulip design. Among the people of German extraction knowncommonly as Pennsylvania Dutch, the Tulip heldas honored a place as in Holland itself. On the ironfire-back of the open chimney, on the tiles of theclose stove, the Tulip design was ever found. Scantpetalled Tulips sprung up around the sturdy four-poster, the family bed ; they twined like a vine aroun

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