74 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



Barral, Vicomte de Forceville, Zoe Calot, Dorothy Kelway, Kel- 

 way's Glorious, Splendida, Venus, Bertha, Enfante de Nancy, 

 Galathee, La Fee, Mme. de Treyeran, Marcelle Dessert, Mont 

 Blanc (Lemoine), Mireille, Mignon, Primevere. 



A Short List of the very best Singles will Include: Albi- 

 flora The Bride, Pride of Langport, Madeleine Gauthier, Stanley 

 L'Etincelante, Austin Chamberlain, The Moor. 



Special Fine Ones in the Japanese Section are : Attraction, 

 Flamboyant, Fuyajo, Ama-no-sode, Margaret Atwood, King of 

 England, Tora-no-]Maki, Lemon Queen, Cathedral, Apple Blossom, 



Succession of Bloom. 



By including the various early-flowering species, hybrids and Tree 

 Peonies in one's collection, the blooming season may be extended 

 over a period of fully two months. The Tree Peonies bloom quite 

 a month ahead of the Chinensis, beginning early in May. As 

 they do not die to the ground each year, they form in time woody 

 shrubs four to five feet in height, their immense strikingly beautiful 

 blooms sometimes a foot in diameter; they are a wonderful sight. 

 There are color schemes among them never found in the herbaceous 

 section, brilliant scarlets, dark maroons and rich wine colors, deli- 

 cate blush, pure pink and art shades of mauve and violet. Most 

 of the varieties introduced by the European growers are full-double, 

 while a large number of the Japanese sorts are semi-double and 

 single, with a large cushion of thick golden stamens in the center, 

 which produces a beautiful effect. The Tree Peonies as shown 

 here on the screen were grown in Professor C. S. Sargent's garden 

 at Brookline, mostly from seeds of the Japanese sorts. Seeds 

 should be sown immediately after they ripen, either in the open 

 ground protected by a slight covering, or in boxes placed in a cold 

 frame. The young plants will appear the following spring, and 

 will produce varieties equal in every way to the named kinds. 



Peony Lutea, a deep golden yellow single Tree Peony was dis- 

 covered a few years ago in the Mountains of Yunnan by the Abbe 

 Delavay. Crosses from this were made by Lemoine with other 

 Tree Peonies. One of them, La Lorraine, was exhibited by me at 



