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Get the best, and they will always sell. I had one root of 

 Baroness Schroeder and in four years sold $34.00 worth from 

 it and had some left to plant. 



September is the best time to plant, for the roots begin to send 

 out little rootlets for spring. If planted in the spring put them 

 out as early as possible. If you raise them for roots they should 

 be taken up and divided and replanted every two or three years. 



Festiva Maxima paeon3'. 



If you raise them for flowers let them stand live or six years. 

 Then you can divide them. But you will find many large club 

 roots that will be difficult to plant. You can give them almost 

 any kind of treatment. I have known clumps of them in Nebras- 

 ka to bloom for twenty years in grass and among trees. They 

 are as patient as a Rocky Mountain burro under neglect, but 

 they respond to generous care. If you want them at their best 

 and wish to increase them rapidly, have rich ground spaded two 



