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on the stems in single, double, or triple rows, as may be. 

 I have seen stems so tight packed with blossoms that they 

 could not stand erect, but bent over, like a bough too 

 heavily loaded with fruit. Before the blue pentstemon 

 opens, it is a delicate pink bud ; when it first opens, it is a 

 clear, bright blue, as blue as the sky ; day by day its tints 

 change, sometimes to a purplish-blue ; sometimes back 

 again towards its childhood's pink, so that out of a hun- 

 dred spikes of blue pentstemon you shall see no two of 

 precisely the same tint ; when they are their deepest, most 

 purple blue, they look like burnished steel ; when they are 

 at their palest pink, they are as delicate as a pink apple- 

 blossom. O New Englander ! groping reverently among 

 scattered sunny knolls and in moist wood depths for scanty 

 handfuls of pale blossoms, what would you do at such a 

 banquet as this, spread before you whenever you stepped 

 outside your door, lying between you and the post-office 

 every day ? For, let me repeat, these flowers of which I have 

 spoken thus far are only the flowers which grow wild in our 

 streets, and there are yet many that I have not mentioned : 

 there is the dark blue spider-wort, which is everywhere ; 

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