MISS ELLA V. BAINES, The Woman Florist, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 



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Peonies— Concluded 



Single Peonies 



Nothing created so much comment and none more admired than our single and Japanese Peonies this past 

 season. Their showy nature, their extreme size, their gorgeous coloring coupled with the quantity of bloom 

 makes them at once desirable for either specimen, group, or border planting. 



ALB I FLORA — Large single white, long yellow stamens. Early, 



free blooming in clusters. $1.75 each. 

 ARGUS — Rich, deep rose. A special flower. $1.15 each. 

 DEFIANCE — Rich red, like a giant poppy. 75 cents each. 

 L'ETINCELANTE — Broad petals, rich clear carmine, broadly 



edged with silvery white. $3.00 each. 



LUCREDIA— Rich rose color. $1.15 each. 

 THE MOOR — Rich glowing dark crimson. $3.00 each. 

 WILD ROSE — Grand petals, rich satiny pink with silvery border. 

 $1.00 each. 



Japanese Peonies 



The beauty of the flower, its gorgeous combination of colors, its beautiful arrangement of the stamenoids, 

 added to the great size of many of the sorts, has placed the Japanese Peony in the front rank with Peony en- 

 thusiasts, and at the recent National Peony Show, whole tables were devoted to this class. We name a choice 

 selection embracing the very best known. 



AKULA — Large bright carmine red flowers. Tuft of saffron 



yellow filamentary petals, striped carmine. $3.00 each. 



AUREOLIN — A combination of colors that caused visitors to go 

 across the field or Exhibition hall to see this marvelous bloom. 

 Beautiful pink guard petals of good size, center filled with rich 

 yellow petaloids which form a rounded ball in center. $6.00 

 each. 



CURIOSITY — Violet red, narrow central petals tipped yellow; 

 very fragrant. $1.00 each. 



DEPARTING SUN— Outer guard petals rich crimson, filliform 

 central petals claret suffused with rose and yellow. $5.00 each. 



GYPSY — Guard petals dark tyrian rose. Gold center, contrasting 

 colors. $1.00 each. 



HETTIE ELLIOTT — Rosy pink in bud, opening shows orange 

 petaloids one quarter inch wide sharply pointed growing prettier 

 and more delicate in coloring with age, changing to soft flesh. 

 $2.00 each. 



EXQUISITE — Not a customer stood back on the price when they 

 beheld this marvelous flower in the Exhibition Hall. The only 

 question was, "Can I buy one"? A giant, water lily cupped, 

 broad petals, snow white flower. As you approach it, you look 

 into a well of molten gold, the stamanoids so beautifully poised 

 that the breath starts the golden ripple and you imagine the 

 center is a living thing. $15.00 each. (Very Scarce.) 



HO-GIOKU — Pure white, Sulphur to strawcolored center. 

 Changing to pure white. Very chaste and beautiful. $2.00 

 each. 



LIEUTENANT HOBSON — Rich deep rose colored guards with 

 golden yellow petaloids. Very showy, $2,00 each. 



MIKADO — Guards velvety crimson maroon, forming a cup 

 filled with crimson petaloids edged and tipped gold, the mest 

 attractive flower imaginable. $3.00 each. 



POCAHONTAS— Guards rose color, filamental petals of copper 

 color, long and slender, giving a very unique flower. The bronze 

 of the petaloids and hairy texture of them reminds one of the 

 Indian Maiden. $2.50 each. 



RARE BROCADE — Pure white with a cream tint. Blooms 

 in clusters resembling a tea rose. $5.00 each. 



SNOW WHEEL — Broad outer petals resembling a Camelia. 

 The filamental petaloids of the center remind one of the aigrette 

 feathers. Immaculate and pure without a blemish. $5.00 each . 



YESSO — Guard petals pure white narrow center petaloids of 

 straw color with traces of carmine on edges. $6.00 each. 



Peonies Officinalis 



Early Bloomers 



Officinalis Rosea Plena — Deep rosy pink and fine. $1.00 each. 

 Officinalis Rubra Plena — The double red early peony of mothers' 



garden long ago; richest color of any peony, any kind. $1.00 



each. 

 Tenuifola Flora Plena — The double crimson fern-leafed peony, 



foliage resembles a green mist and the flower in this setting is 



charming. $1 .00 each . 

 Tenuifolia Simplex — The single scarlet, fern-leafed peony. 



$1.00 each. 



Surprise Collection Only $1. 



By Express at Purchaser's Expense 



\X 7E USUALLY have at the end of the selling season a num- 

 * * ber of choice plants that we have grown a surplus of. To 

 those who will send us a dollar, we will, after June 1, 1927, send 

 a fine lot of plants that will be a surprise to you. So send us a 

 dollar, and after June 1, we will send you the Surprise Collection 

 of plants. The selection to be strictly our own. We sell several 

 thousand of the Surprise Collections each year and everyone is 

 pleased with them. 



