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The Japanese Floral Calendar. 



remarkably rich in tone. The peach-blossom in mass, as 

 it appears in groves and orchards, contributes far more 

 to the beauty of the spring landscape than its more hon- 

 ored but severer brother, the plum-blossom." "The 



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chards of peach-trees in blossom are much frequented by 

 the common people." 



Of the different colors, the pale pink is said to rank 

 first. The peach-blossom, the Japanese name of which is 

 memo, meaning also "hundred," is considered "emblematic 



