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Excerpt from article by P. H. DORSETT in May, 1935, "Flower Grower," 
Albany, N. Y. 
"As Agricultural Explorer of the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture, I first saw these remarkably large, old vines on April 18, 1929, 
when the flower bud.s were just beginning to unfold. On my second visit 
to see them on May 15th, the two vines were completely covered with a 
mass of exquisitely beautiful, light-lavender flowers. At that time the 
many flower racemes measured, even though they had not completed 
their growth, from 36 to 47 inches in length. This unusual display of 
thousands of long, slender flower racemes, of a delicate shade of laven¬ 
der, moving gracefully to and fro in sunshine and shadow, was most 
fascinating and excelled anything of the kind I had ever seen." 
Reproduced from "Flower Grower of May, 1935. A close-up of “Ushijima," or 
Kyushaku. In Japan are found many varieties of similar general characteristics, 
differing slightly, in the density of the flower clusters, the size of the individual 
flowers, or in color. 
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