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Encouraged by the Mattering: and unprecedented 

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I lull dwarf, 15 to 18 inches high ; foliage large, thick, 

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every oi 

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ing; qualitv vnsurpati 

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st -class Pea for summer 

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 I, w rinkled as the pieced 

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 say that, for continuance 

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