Tulip-like

It is remarkably smooth, and not less admired for its fiddle-shaped leaves, than its tulip-like flowers, which are formed at the ends of the branches.

The autumn drifted away through all its seasons. The golden corn-harvest, the walks through the stubble-fields, and rambles into hazel-copses in search of nuts; the stripping of the apple-orchards of their ruddy fruit, amid the joyous cries and shouts of watching children; and the gorgeous tulip-like colouring of the later time had now come on with the shortening days.

We are not alone, walking with blistered feet in the desert: We meet many a tulip-like beauty, their heads covered with dust.