No fair maid of Algeria, <br />muchacha from Iberia, <br />has beauty that’s superior <br />to flowering wisteria. <br />Some call her purple, some say mauve, <br />I fancy her, for she is fauve. <br />Wisterially, I’m feeling chauv- <br />inistic for her in her grove. <br />With blossom purple and imperious <br />she beckons to me, mauve, mysterious, <br />and draws me to her, mute but serious, <br />and wonderful and wild, wisterious. <br /> <br />Sierra Madre, CA, boasts the largest blooming plant in the world. A wisteria that has 1,500,000 blossoms a year. Planted in a house on Carter Street in 1894 as a one gallon vine, it is now touted as one of the seven horticultural wonders of the world. The locals call the plant a wistaria, pointing out that it was named after Caspar Wistar (1761-1818) . <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 9/2/97 <br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wisteria-2/
