[Plate 20.] 
THE SALMON-COLOURED MOUTAN. 
(MOUTAN OFFICINALIS; SALMONEA.) 
A hardy wider-shrub from China, belonging to the Natural Order of Crowfoots. 
Pseonia Moutan, Salmonea. Journal of the Horticultural Society, vol. iii., p. 236, 
when Mr. Fortune first 
first 
In hi 
heard 
Wanderings 
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lilacs and deep reds. Afterwards, having 
pur 
eight miles 
Mr. Fortune tells us that he proceeded there daily during the time 
different plants were coming into bloom, and secured 
for the Horticultural Society. 
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and beautiful kinds 
distinctness there can be only one opini 
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figured 
and 
With 
•rnmon Officinal Pseonv, it combines that delicacv of texture and fineness 
among the Moutans alone. " The outer petals when fully blown are a pale salmon-colour ; the 
inner have a deep rich tint of the same." The accompanying figure is in no respects an exaggeration 
of the beauty of this variety. 
As the Japanese name the eomm 
(an, the usual name of ti 
called Fkaminma and He 
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hich we quite agree with them, for reasons that will be 
a still finer variety than this. It is to be suspected 
also that more species than one is comprehended under the common name of Tree Peeony : even 
although, as is probable, the Poppy Moutan (P. papaveracea) should be a mere variety of the 
common kind ; for some of the Japanese kinds are said to form rapidly a woody stem eight or ten 
cliinat 
stature 
es. 
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