PAEOXIA. 



and the riotous grace of his branches be so artistically constrained 

 that, thus imprisoned, he learns to give the idea of untrammelled age. 

 and so rejoices the day with his imperious golden-tasselled blossoms 



■coloured silk that in the sunlight seem 

 to be inspired with a sombre and divine flame. The cultivated forms 

 are of a beauty and variety that no tongue can adequately tell of (at 

 least those that come from the East ; not the coloured cabbages of 

 the Continent that carry the names of queens) — but are too sophis- 

 tical d for the rock-garden, to say nothing of the fact that in our 

 climate they ask for more consultation of* their whims than is implied 

 by a place thei . pendix. 



P. obovata=P. japonica, q.v. 



P. officinalis, the type, mother, and fount of wild Paeonies. is a 

 common sight in all the Southern Alps, a downy plant with rosy 

 flowers., and innumerable developments, hailed as species. 



P. Pallasii comes from Siberia and is brightly pink. 



P. paradoxa is a Southerner with flowers of crimsonish colouring. 

 : quire close to the next, but dwarfer. with smaller more finely- 

 divided leaves, more bluish in tone ; and with blossoms of purplish 

 note and medium size. 



P. peregrina is very elegant and splendid and luxuriant, with foliage 

 luish-green, still more glaucous or downy beneath, with single 

 flowers of vivid pink. It stands near P. officinalis, which with all 

 its many kindred names may be so many local forms or sub-species 

 of this, which is the ultimate mother of the large crimson garden- 

 Paeonics, as P. albiflora of the Chinese varieties, and P. Moutan of 

 the Trees. It is the scarlet origin of the yet brighter Si Sunbeam.'' 



Pi pubens is downy and bright pink. (From South Europe.) 



P. rornanica is no more than P. decora, q.v. 



P. Rxissii is a form of P. coraUina with the leaves puberulous under- 

 neath. It hails from Corsica, occ. 



P. te$ as leafage cut into a fine fog of green, and smallish 



cupped flowers of intense crimson. Ti rious garden forms ; 



the most notable are a single whit- - ogle rose-pink, both 



beautiful indc.' ally with the plait's neat little dwarf habit 



of not exceeding a foot or 18 inches at the m 



P. tritemata has the same stature, or less, with fat-looking dark 

 foliage, however, and blossoms that van- from white to pink and 

 deeper tones. 



V. Veikhii ifl a new rarity with quite fine delicate leafage of pale 

 glaucous-green, forming a wide drooping mass, most graceful in effect, 

 in which proceed stems that carry a goodly number of nodding flowers. 



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