When a rose is a rose in speech but a tulip in writing.
Unfortunately for the authors, at about the time the book appeared in print the bloom had fallen from the tulip.
For crop species with a long juvenile period such as tree species, tulip and lily, this is not a practical solution.
The subject knows that a tulip is a kind of flower with a long stem and therefore has some knowledge of the word tulip.
Suppose that, in a receptive (picture) test, the subject indicates a rose rather than a palm tree or a violet for a tulip (the required answer).
No decision has yet been reached regarding an increased duty on tulip and narcissus bulbs.
I do not think that there is any need to walk cautiously through the tulips, as it were.
In the gardens we have lost 148 big trees, many of them exotics like paulownia, catalpa and tulip trees.
