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AY I ask why the Chinese purple- 

 flowered wistaria is grown almo^ 

 |i to the exclusion of the pure white- 

 flowered variety? I saw it wreathing and 

 draping the great formal entrance of a white 

 marble villa, and again the ferny foliage 

 and long white flower-pendants garlanded 

 a charming little house with soft-toned green 

 shutters, the very shade of green one finds 

 in the fresh young leaves of Spring, a green 

 in which there is no blue, a green in which 

 all vines are in harmony and a green I regret 

 to say that is rarely seen in paint 53 53 

 This great vine on the little, broad- 

 ^ shingled, white house was old and the 

 twined trunk was very thick, but that 

 was the only evidence of age about 

 . it. The foliage started low and there 



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