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to-morrow and help you do it, and perhaps you'll 

 give me a few." 



I've never owned a peony of the tree variety, but 

 I've coveted all those which I've seen growing in other 

 people's gardens and I hope some day some of these 

 good people will die and bequeath me one. They are 

 by far the most magnificent of the peony family and 

 grow to the size of shrubs. 



When I get rich I'm going to own a Boule de Niege 

 peony at $1.50 a root, and an Eduard Andre at $3 

 per root, and a Festiva Maxima, and feel just as its 

 name sounds, for $2. But at present I only own 

 many unchristened clumps of mysterious single and 

 doiible ones, some of which I obtained for $6 a 

 dozen, others for $7.50, and I had to borrow from 

 my lord and master to own even these. 



Peonies should always be planted in the fall. I 

 believe many people do not know that they may be 

 multiplied by very carefully bending down the new 

 shoots after they have grown to a fair height in 

 spring, covering the middle of shoot with earth and 

 confining it in place with pegs. The earth covered 

 part will make a root of its own; the following fall 

 cut the child from the mother plant and reset else- 

 where. 



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