MYTHOLOGY, AND HISTORY OF THE PEONY 



Garden at Kingsessing, near Philadelphia 

 (1807). The reference, as in all cases in the 

 catalogue, is merely the name — " Paeonia officin- 

 alis " — without description or comment. In the 

 Catalogue of Bartram's Garden published in 

 1828 (five years after John Bartram's death), 

 we find six herbaceous peonies in addition to 

 some tree peonies : 



"Paeonia officinalis crimson officinal paeony .25 



" albicans double white " .25 



" rosea ..rose coloured " .25 



" rubra double red " .25 



" carnescens ......flesh coloured " 1.00 



" albiflora simplex. . single white " 1.00" 



In Green's Treatise on Ornamental Flowers, 

 published in Boston in 1828, peonies are included 

 among the " leading plants " of the day. And 

 in the same year there is a record of the elder 

 Thomas Hogg exhibiting a single white P. offi- 

 cinalis at an exhibition of the New York Hor- 

 ticultural Society. 



William Prince, of Flushing, Long Island, in 

 1829, in his annual Catalog of Trees and Plants 

 cultivated at his famous Linnsean Botanic Gar- 

 den, says: " No class of flowers has recently at- 



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