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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 



