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REMARKS ON THE MOUTAN PJEONY. 



Name* 



Hamon 



Hymenee 



Iphigenie 



Isidore 



Julie Sisley 



Jauue Serin 



Lucile Delmart 



Lejas 



Lyonnais 



Louis Philippe 



Lutescens inutabilis 



Lutescens nana 



Maximilian 



Colour. 

 blush, shaded, crims. 

 white, yellow centre 

 lilac rose 

 pale rose, shaded 

 blush with rosy centre 

 straw colour and rose 

 bright rose 

 vivid light crimson 

 pale flesh 

 delicate rose 

 pale straw 

 reddish 3 T ellow 

 rose and buff 



Magnifica, or Magnus Ladulas rose, marbled 



Form and Character. 

 globular, very large & double, 

 cupped and double, 

 globular, large and double, 

 expanded and double, 

 globular, large and double, 

 cupped and double, 

 cupped and double, 

 globular and very double, 

 cupped, very large and double 

 cupped, large and double, 

 cupped and double, 

 cupped, very small & double, 

 cupped, large and double, 

 cupped, large and double. 



Mesfre 



Madame Guerin 



Mutabilis 



Nitida 



Odoratissima 



Princesse Stephanie 



Palavicini 



Potart 



Pallida 



Reve du Bonheur 



Roi de Siam 



Reine de Cythere 



pale flesh 



rose, changing to crim 

 white with rosy centre 

 lilac rose 

 pale flesh 

 yellowish white 

 flesh with buff centre 

 bright rose, shaded 

 rosy buff 

 pure white 

 pale flesh 



Reine de Juillet, or Plantier bright rose 



Strombio 



Superbe de Vitry 



Taglioni 



Triomphe du Luxembourg 



Yellow 



cream and blush 

 delicate rose 

 white with buff centre 

 buff and rose 

 pale sulphur 



cupped, large and double, 

 globular, large and double. 

 expanded, large and double, 

 globular, large and double, 

 cupped and double, 

 expanded and double, 

 globular and double, 

 cupped and very large, 

 globular, large and double, 

 cupped, very large and double 

 globular, with stiff petals, 

 globular and very large, 

 globular and very double, 

 globular and double, 

 cupped, large aud double, 

 cupped, large & semi-double. 



ARTICLE II. 



REMARKS ON THE MOUTAN PjEONY, OR TREE P.EONY. 



BY J. S. L. 



A very elaborate, but in many parts both fabulous and mistaken ac- 

 count of the Moutan Paeonies is given in the Memoires sur les Chi- 

 nois, the substance of which I will briefly note. Thev are stated to 

 be of considerable antiquity in the gardens of the north of China, 

 and are supposed to have been originally found wild on the moun- 

 tains in the province of Ho-nan. They were at first cultivated in 

 the district of Lo-yang, and subsequently in the Imperial Gardens 

 of Kai-fong-fou, in Ho-nan ; but they appear (o Lave succeeded best 



