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The SEMI-DOUBLE TREE PALONY.* 
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POLYANDRIA TRI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEZ Juss. (Introduction to the natural system 
of Botany, p. 6.) 
PZEONIA. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 42. 
GARDEN VARIETY. 
For an opportunity of figuring this beautiful variety of 
the Tree Peony we are indebted to the Earl of Mountnorris, 
by whom it was raised from seed, and who supplied us 
with specimens from his rich collection at Arley Hall in 
May last. 
It is thus spoken of in the Horticultural Transactions, 
where it is described by Mr. Sabine under the name of 
P. Moutan, carnea plena. 
* The seedlings which I mentioned at the commence- 
ment of this paper were raised in the Garden of the Earl 
of Mountnorris, at Arley Hall, in Worcestershire ; the 
seeds were from the Banksii, and were sown seven years 
ago. In the year after they were sown, three plants 
came up. One is a very distinct variety ; the two others 
approach each other so nearly, that they will not perhaps 
be considered sufficiently different to be separated, except 
by very nice observers. As the flowers of those now to be 
described are the first they have produced, it 1s probable 
that they will very much improve in size hereafter. The 
plant of Banksii, which produced the capsules from which 
the seeds were gathered, grew close to a Papaveracea ; 
and from the characters of the flowers of their produce, 
I am disposed to think that they are derived from the pol- 
len of the latter.— Peonia Moutan ; Carnea Plena. I have 
given this name to the first of the two plants, which I have 
* See fol. 1208. 
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