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| | Oriental China - Powdered Blue |
 | | Spring flowers are the large white magnolia or the yulan with the peony. |
 | | The yulan magnolia is often confounded with the guelder-rose, though the former, like the peach, blossoms before its leaves appear. |
 | | Summer is pictured by pines, poplars, reeds, lotus, hydrangea, pinks, and flags ; autumn by chrysanthemums, birds, butterflies, russet leaves of the oak and its acorns, by scenes of ladies gathering fruit, and of swollen rivers and autumn tints generally. |
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