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Tulip Miscellany

The tulips (tew li|>-uh) is of the lily family The name derives from the Turkish

word for turban, tu/bend, which the flower resembles

Lim-E DUTCH GIRL Is actually three-year-old Alicia Fots of Villa*, clutching a potful of tulip*.

As with all bulbous flowers the tulip contains its own storage compartment with a food source and modifications for stems and leaves. Tulips are one ofTTieTi£r\ maphodite flowers, carry-'' ing both male a|nd female reproductive pVrtsafid therefore self-poliTnSting. Both pistals and stamens are located in the center of the bloom. The color of tulips includes nearly two-thirds of the Spectrum, making it the most colorful of all flowers. ••• Some tulip varieties have a fragrance that challenges any rose. ••• There are over a 100 species of tulips with thousands of varieties. ••• It takes five to seven years to grow tulips from seed. The beautiful varigated colors of tulips are the result of a virus attack while the bulbs are in

TULIP PICKERS raiding the garden of neighbor Laura Lynch of Goshen are Carl* Holding and Andy Sheehan. Their bouquet gift for their mothers came with neighbor Lynch’s permission, of course. ^

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storage. This is frequently done deliberately. ••• The tulip has been known in America at least since 1640 when the Dutch settled on Manhattan Island. Tulip seeds and bulbs have been used as food. The English experimented with them during the 17th Century, but as the bulbs were so expensive, their use in the kitchen was short-lived. The Dutch used them as food when starving under the German occupation during World Ware II. However. Hollanders didn’t find them very palatable

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The tulip plant has only onb disease — Tulip Fire (Botrytis tulipae). It isn’t too prevalent bui once started, it spreads like fire. It usually appears as a result of a warm wet Spring. Initial symptoms include spotting on blooms and yellow shriveling leaf tips. It can be controlled if caught early. ••• i Tulip pests include moles, rabbits, mice, slugs, aphids, mites and bulb flies. Planting in wire mesh baskets and the use of napthlalene flakes can help protect the bulbs. ••• The leading American tulip growers are located around Holland, Mich, and Pella, Iowa.

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