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if of a variety that more quickly accustoms it- 

 self to new surroundings, they may bear bloom 

 the first season, but these will never be a fair 

 sample of what the plant can do. Double Peo- 

 nies, under such circumstances, may bear only 

 single flowers, and this fact sometimes leads to 

 disappointment on the part of the purchaser 

 who fancies that the nurseryman has not dealt 

 fairlj' by him. Before he voices his suspicion, 

 it would be better were he to take into consid- 

 eration the short time the plant has been in his 

 garden and postpone his complaint until the 

 following season when, in all likelihood, the 

 flowers will be as double as they were repre- 

 sented to be. 



Some Peonies, however, are not profuse 

 bloomers. Constitutionally they are not and 

 from such plants large quantities of bloom will 

 never be obtained. It is also a fact that some 

 Peonies are prolific bloomers in some sections 

 of the country and in other sections bloom very 

 little. It is impossible, of course, to say with 

 any degree of certainty what varieties perform 

 in tliis tmsatisfactory manner, but Charle- 

 magne, for instance, blooms strongly in Eoch- 

 ester. New York, and weakly in New England. 

 Giganthea does well in the East, but in the West 



