June 9, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



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Sim's Hybrid Yellow Polyanthus 



(Giant English Primrose) 

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This is the best selling novelty in years. They 

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 cutting. They bloom from December to May. 



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AURICULA PLANTS one year old in bud and bloom 

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A PEONY LETTER FROM M. LE- 

 MOINE. 



The letter given below was received 

 from Monsieur E. Lemoine of Nancy, 

 France, by the Secretary, late last au- 

 tumn. It will be remembered that the 

 firm of V. Lemoine et fils were given 

 Honorary Membership in our society 

 at the meeting last June. 



The letter reads as follows: 



"I am very grateful tn the American 

 Peony Society for the honor conferred on 

 me. and I beg you to transmit my best 

 thanks to the Society. I was much in- 

 terested in reading the Bulletin No. 3, and 

 particiilarly in examining the "Symposium 

 oil the Newer Foreign Varieties.' 



■"Please note the following remarks about 

 the year of introduction of some yarieties: 

 Bayadere, 1910 — Bertrade. 10O9 — Claude 

 Geilee. 1904— Gisele. 1908— La Fee, 1906— 

 Laurence. 1911 — Mirabeau. 1904 — Rachel, 

 1904— Sultane, 1899. 



"Ornement des Massifs was sent out by 

 Crousse in 1893. We always consider it a 

 poor yarioty, but yery different from 

 Charlemagne (Crousse ISSO) which is a 

 good sort, and sweet scented. 



"Solange was not named after the Cheva- 

 lier Soulange P.Odin, but this is a Christian 

 name frequently used in some parts of cen- 

 tral France. 



"We spell Renommee instead of Renomme, 

 Mademoiselle Desbuisson, instead of Des- 

 buissous. 



"I am sending you the colored plate of 

 tree peony La Lorraine, as requested, to- 

 gether \vith a picture and a photograph of 

 the new tree Peony Souvenir de Maxime 

 Cornu. which was raiseil and named by 

 Louis Henry of the Paris Museum of Natu- 

 ral History, and which I hope to send out 

 when circumstances become normal. 



"I have so far suffered only immaterial 

 -damage from air raids, a bomb having 



dropped in my garden near the dwelling 

 house last year." 



All of our members will be glad to 

 learn that the precious stocks of hy- 

 brids in the nursery of M. Lemoine 

 were safe from damage at least up to 

 the time of his letter, and we may 

 hope they still are so. 



In the matter of dates, our members 

 will kindly take note of the informa- 

 tion here supplied, and incorporate it 

 in catalogue or garden book according 

 as they are professional or amateur 

 growers. 



The two color plates referred to in 

 the letter are indeed of great interest. 

 The lutea hybrid La Lorraine has al- 

 ready found its way into this country, 

 though I do not know of anyone hav- 

 ing yet had bloom on it. It is a large 

 double bright yellow peony — but those 

 who get the Lemoine catalogues are 

 already familiar with the description 

 of this epoch-making flower. The new 

 variety Souvenir de Maxime Cornu — 

 another lutea hybrid — is, to judge by 

 the color plate and the photograph of 

 the plant in bloom, another great ad- 

 vance. The flower is fully double, of 

 a magnificent bright yellow, with red- 

 dish shadings on the edges of some of 

 the petals. The photograph of the 

 plant shows a large vigorous bush 

 with foliage much like that of P. 

 lutea, and decorated with 17 or 18 

 huge, fully expanded blooms. 



The Secretary did what he could 

 to obtain copies of some of these pic- 



tures for distribution with the bulletin, 

 but they were unobtainable in any 

 such quantity. They will be on view 

 at the Philadelphia meeting, and any 

 member who is particularly interested 

 and who cannot be present there, may 

 have a look at them later on if he will 

 signify to the Secretary that his hap- 

 piness depends on it. 



Just as this bulletin is ready for the 

 press, the .May number of the Garden 

 Magazine comes to hand, with an ex- 

 cellent, though too brief, appreciation 

 of M. V. Lemoine, the father of the 

 present head of the firm. Our readers 

 will be interested in both the sketch 

 and the photograph of this remarkable 

 man, "the greatest plant breeder that 

 the world has ever seen." — Bulletin 

 Xo. 'i. Amer. Peony Society. 



Formal Gardens are the expression 

 of landscape architecture, man's handi- 

 craft. They do not symbolize or stim- 

 ulate Nature and have little interest 

 or attraction for one who is familiar 

 with the natural landscape pictures of 

 the Master Artist. 



—Art in Landscape Gardening. 



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