P^EONIA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



P^EONIA. 



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by berries. Well drained and sunny 

 places of the rock-garden in full sun. 

 Seeds, layers, or cuttings. 



P^GONIA (Pceony}. Among the most 

 beautiful of hardy perennial plants, with 

 much beauty of colour and often frag- 

 rance. Though there are several species 

 in collections, the most important are 

 the hybrids obtained by inter-crossing. 

 Paeonies are divided into two groups 

 the tree or shrubby kinds, comprising 

 the varieties of P. Moutan ; and the 

 herbaceous kinds. The hybrid sorts have 

 been obtained chiefly from P. officinalis 



most beautiful of recent date are : GOOD 

 SINGLE KINDS : Argus, Armida, 

 Autumnus, Bridesmaid, Countess of War- 

 wick, Duchess of Sutherland, Emily, 

 Frank Bramley, Giganteus, Miss Ida 

 Chamberlain, Mrs. J. Gundry, Mrs. 

 Templeman, Philip H. Miller, Stanley, 

 The King, The Queen. DOUBLE KINDS : 

 Agnes Mar Kelway, Arethusa, Beaute" 

 Frangaise, Comte de Paris, Coronation, 

 Dean Hole, Dr. Bonavia, Due de Welling- 

 ton, Duchesse de Nemours, Edulis 

 superba, Ella Christine Kelway, Eten- 

 dard du Grand Homme, Festiva Maxima. 



Paeonia lutea. 



and other European kinds, together with 

 the Chinese species albiflora, sinensis, 

 and edulis. The European varieties 

 flower early and the Chinese late, so 

 that the flowering season is prolonged. 



HYBRIDS. Among these there is much 

 variety of colour white, pale yellow, 

 salmon, flesh-pink, and numerous inter- 

 mediate shades from carmine to brightest 

 purple. Among the oldest varieties the 

 most remarkable are grandiflora, double 

 white ; Louis Van Houtte, papaveriflora, 

 rubra triumphans, sulphurea plenissima, 

 rosea superba, Zoe, Mme. Calot, Gloria 

 Patrias, and Prince Troubetskoy. The 



Glory of Somerset, Henri Demay, James 

 Kelway, Lady Alexandra Duff, Lady 

 Curzon, La Tulipe, Leonard Kelway, 

 Leonie, Limosel, Madame Vilmorin, 

 Monsieur Rousselon, Octavie Demay, 

 Prolifera tricolor, Queen Victoria, Reine 

 des Francaises, Sainfoin, Souvenir de 

 Caspar Calot, Triomphe de Paris, Venus. 

 There are many others for example, the 

 forms of P. officinalis (such as anemoncz- 

 flora, rubra, and Sabini, and the rosy, 

 crimson, and white double-flowered varie- 

 ties) ; also P. albiflora, peregrina, para- 

 doxa. and especially the small P. tenui- 

 folia, with its feathery foliage and large 

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