Varieties in Alien Soil and Climate 207 



Andrew Carnegie, some fifteen years old, a 

 creamy pink peony, has for a long time been 

 especially desirable, not alone for its exquisite 

 colour and unusual centre set like a jewel, but for 

 the fern-like foliage which makes it a thing of 

 beauty in the garden and unsurpassed as a cut 

 flower. Of late I have found it inclined to be- 

 come poor in colour soon after it commences to 

 bloom and that the addition of a little lime- 

 water when the buds begin to show has improved 

 it very much. It is undoubtedly one of the best 

 seed parents I have used where pale colours were 

 sought for; and, probably a descendant of Dahlia 

 Gracilis, endows as much as 50 per cent, of its 

 children with its beautiful foliage. 



My own Gertrude Dahl was one of these, 

 though with heavier foliage, no more beautiful in 

 its way, perhaps, than its parent; though a hun- 

 dred times freer in flowering and with an 

 iridescence in colour obtained from the pollen 

 parent used. 



Whether Wolfgang v. Goethe and F. W. 

 Fellows may be called pink or red, they are 

 certainly salmon, and rank among the very best. 

 The former is one of the oldest, following closely 

 upon the heels of the Countess of Lonsdale. 

 Tall, upright in habit, unfailing in colour and 

 generous in bloom, it is as beautiful to-day as it 



