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held each upon a slender thread of deeper purple 

 still. It is simply superb, and when the great 

 bush is ablaze with these flowers it is indeed a 

 conflagration of color. " The fire-engines always 

 turn out when my Orientals blaze up on the hill- 

 side," writes a flower-loving friend to me. No 

 garden should be without these, for they flourish 

 with the least care, are perfectly hardy, and never 

 fail to blossom generously. 



