P.EONY. 89 



Monsieur Noisette, a nurseryman in Paris, sold 

 them from one thousand five hundred francs to 

 one hundred louis each. 



The Tree Pseony is now found to be sufficiently 

 hardy to bear the cold of our climate, but to have 

 it in all the splendour which it is capable of dis- 

 playing, the plant should be secured by a glazed 

 building, but it does not require the aid of arti- 

 ficial heat. 



When the different varieties of these magni- 

 ficent flowers are inoculated on the branches of 

 a single plant, it is hardly possible to conceive a 

 more splendid effect than it presents, by its fine 

 lobed foHage and the superb size of its flowers, 

 which vary from the finest carmine to the most 

 delicate blush of the rose. The large petals, 

 which are finely shaded off from the centre to the 

 edges, are placed with the most graceful irregu- 

 larity, seemingly without order, whilst the whole 

 forms a group of perfect symmetry and beauty. 



This plant is already sufficiently inured to our 

 climate to perfect its seed, and we may therefore 

 reasonably expect that we shall in a few years 

 be able to raise varieties surpassing those of its 

 native land, as its early time of flowering being 

 from May to the end of June, gives the whole 

 summer to ripen the fruit. 



It is easily increased by layers and cuttings, 



