Then came forth an Elf bearing a withered leaf, while her many-colored robe and the purple tulips in her hair told her name and charge.

One held a bottle of champagne and the other a forest of purple tulips.

He carried the silver bucket with the purple tulips.

A vase of purple tulips, on the verge of dropping their petals, stands next to another clear glass beaker filled with cream-colored roses.

On the plaza in front of the courthouse, near flowerbeds bright with purple and yellow tulips, tourists joined in the wait for the verdict.

So it seemed safe to order $178 worth of iris reticulata and yellow hyacinths and purple tulips.

Hyacinths bloomed here, and sullen purple tulips, and daffodils with nodding heads.

"Yes," the florist said, "and for that you can get lovely glass vases with 10 purple tulips on each table."

So when she frowned at a particularly dark purple tulip, the gardeners were as flustered as the men who had to paint the roses for the Red Queen.