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Wistaria, Everlasting Pea, are purple or blue, vary- 

 ing to white. Bees are among the highest forms of 

 insect life, and the labiate flowers are adapted to 

 their visits ; these nearly all have purple or blue 

 petals — Thyme, Sage, Mint, Marjoram, Basil, 

 Prunella, etc. 



Of course the Blue Border runs into tints of pale 

 lilac and purple and is thereby the gainer; but I 



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would remove from it the purple Clematis, Wistaria, 

 and Passion-flower, all of which a friend has planted 

 to cover the wall behind her blue flower bed. Some- 

 times the line between blue and purple is hard to 

 define. Keats invented a word, purplue, which he 

 used for this indeterminate color. 



I would not, in my Blue Border, exclude an occa- 

 sional group of flowers of other colors ; I love a 



