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Had Maxfield Parrish lived among the bamboo forests of Japan or China, he would 

 have found in them the themes for many of his paintings which appeal to our imagi- 

 nations by their sense of mystery. In this photograph the bamboos are nearly as 

 tall as the pecan trees standing in their midst. (Fig. 3.) 



