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The flowers and gardens of Japan (1908)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella, ill · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 285

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s werecrowding round me; it seemed as though theyhad even cast their rosy hue upon the houses, asare not all their walls pink, as if they too reflectedthe colour of the blossoms ? I felt I should like to sleep among the azaleasand see them in the early dawn, and watch the mistclear off* the water… … AZALEAS 165 separate little house. They are frail structuresthese little houses, with only their paper shoji toprotect one from the chilliness of the night, andremember, summer is not yet here; all throughthe month of May there will be a freshness in theair to remind you that spring is not yet…

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