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to-morrow and help you do it, and perhaps you'll 

 give me a few." 



I've never owned a peony of the tree variety, but 

 I've coveted all those which I've seen growing in other 

 people's gardens and I hope some day some of these 

 good people will die and bequeath me one. They ar^ 

 by far the most magnificent of the peony family and 

 grow to the size of shrubs. 



When I get rich I'm going to own a Boule de Niege 

 peony at $1.50 a root, and an Eduard Andre at $3 

 per root, and a Festiva Maxima, and feel just as its 

 name sounds, for $2. But at present I only own 

 many unchristened clumps of mysterious single and 

 double ones, some of which I obtained for $6 a 

 dozen, others for $7.50, and I had to borrow from 

 ,my lord and master to own even these. 



Peonies should always be planted in the fall. I 

 believe many people do not. know that they may be 

 multiplied by very carefully bending down the new 

 shoots after they have grown to a fair height in 

 spring, covering the middle of shoot with earth and 

 confining it in place with pegs. The earth covered 

 part will make a root of its own; the following fall 

 cut the child from the mother plant and reset else- 

 where. 



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