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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 
Scilla. 
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 
