The Garden Magazine, June, 1922 



235: 



"PURPLE WISTERIA IN CLOUDY DEW-FALL 

 FREEING SILK BLOSSOMS SWEET," 



Elsie C. D. De Festetics 



* * * PEONIES A-BLOW 

 SPREADING THEIR GAY PATTERNS 

 CRIMSON, PIED AND CREAM, 

 LIKE SOME GORGEOUS FRESCO 

 OR AN EASTERN DREAM." 



Bliss Carman 



Maltie Edwards Hewitt, Photo 



These two natives of the Orient, long at home in American 

 gardens, are truly lovely in combination; the Tree Peony 

 (Paeonia Moutan) being less widely known because less easily 

 grown than Wisteria. The flowers of the Tree Peony, like 

 those of the Godetia and the Poppy, are characterized by a 

 glistening, silky sheen, and unfold in fascinating manner from 

 tight crinkly buds to smooth-petalled blooms of great size and 

 beauty. It is best to get plants that have been grafted on the 

 herbaceous Peony, as those propagated on moutan stock are apt 

 to revert to the ugly color of the original wild plant. Garden 

 of Mrs. Aaron Ward, Roslyn, L. I. 



