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fairly liberal annual supply of manure, as peonies 

 are strong growers and heavy feeders. In the 

 hottest days of summer they should be regularly 

 watered, as although their flowers are over, it is 

 then that they are making their buds for next year. 

 Their colours baffle description, and in form 

 many of them resemble enormous semi-double 

 Roses, they travel well and last many days in 

 water, and after adding to these good points the fact 

 that many of them have a delicious and inoffensive 

 perfume you will be in possession of some small 

 idea of their beauty, but, when the first flowers 

 of Her Grace, Festiva maocima, or Mons. Chas. 

 Leveque are seen in the garden all will be bound 

 to admit that my description has utterly failed to 

 do them justice. 



* Albert Crousse. Blush-pink, large and good quality. 

 Amazone. Creamy white suffused with crimson ; very 



distinct. 

 *Canarie. White tinted sulphur ; one of the most useful for 



cutting. 

 Carnea elegans. Beautiful clear satiny flesh ; a lovely bit 



of colour. 

 Duchesse de Nemours. A giant white flower ; rose-scented. 



A real beauty. 



Eugene Verdier. Clear flesh-pink. 



*Festiva maxima. Pure white, tipped pale pink ; a large and 

 full flower ; very free-flowering. 



