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the attention of their customers to these flowers for 

 decoration, and create a demand bv giving their names 

 and cliaracteristics. I know of one florist who secured 

 a fine lot from Euroj^e, but lost their names, and when 

 he went to sell them he called them "pinys," which of 

 course recalled the rank odors of childhood. 



Let the florist keep the finest. What rose can put 

 the Solftare to blush, or shame the Thorbeckii, with its 

 cinnamon fragrance, its sumptuous beauty, grand in 

 size, with its rich coloring varnished into its petals ? 



CUTTIXG FROM XEWLY PLANTED ROOTS. 



Where you have strong roots, planted in the fall in 

 very rich ground, on some varieties there will be quite 

 a crop of flowers. Some growers carefully nip off all 

 the buds the first year, thinking it will exhaust the 

 })lant. Others will cut them close. We are to remem- 

 ber, however, that it is impossible foT a plant to do its 

 liest the first season. It takes three and sometimes 

 four years for some varieties to show what they can do. 

 I often receive pitiful letters from ladies who are so 

 disappointed that their Paeonies have not done better, 

 when they had been planted but a few months. One 

 lady, hearing this Manual was to be published, hastened 

 to order it in the hope that it would throw some light 

 on her trouble. Inquiring what that was, we found 

 she had j^lanted some Paeonies a few months before and 

 the foliage was not as rank, or the flowers as large, as 

 those of her neighbors. An excellent remedy in such 

 cases is to wait. 



