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different order. While in the daffodils it was the charm of grace 
and purity which called forth our admiration, here our interest and 
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variety of P. arictina, we have one of the earliest bloomers 
flowers are red and the leaf-segments much paler beneath 
Among the single-flowered peonies, or those in which the flow- 
place, second to that of ‘‘ Otto Froebel,” its flowers being a deep 
red-purple. 
While some forms attract attention by their flowers, others are 
giving it a gray-green appearance ; the unusual egg-shaped a 
