We grade our roots as follows: 
1st Size, Divided Roots—This is a root divided un~ 
til it has from 2 to 5 eyes. This is the size we 
always plant and we recommend this for general 
planting, both as to the desirability of its low 
cost and the results obtained. Many varieties 
throw normal flowers the first year from planting. 
2nd Size, One-Year Roots—This is a Ist size di- 
vided root of 2 to 5 eyes planted and grown 
for one year, then dug and sold you as it comes 
from the ground. This is a most desirable size 
and is well worth the additional price asked 
for it. You simply for the difference in cost 
between this size and Ist size save one year in 
This size will throw more bloom the first 
This is 
time. 
year from planting than the Ist size. 
the popular size. 
3rd Size, Two-Year Roots—This is the 2nd size left 
in the ground one year longer and sold you as 
it comes from the soil. This size you gain two 
years of time. 
4th Size, Three-Year Roots—This is the 3rd size left 
in the ground one year longer and sold you as 
it comes from the soil. This size you gain three 
years of time. 
Our aim is to always Bive value for the money 
entrusted to us for Peonies, and the fact that our 
Peony sales have reached the enormous amount they 
have, running into the hundreds of thousands each 
season, should be proof that we are amply satis~ 
fying our customers. 
letters saying: 
It is not unusual to get 
“We have bought Peony roots 
from all the growers and yours are the best of any 
we buy.” 
OUR GUARANTEE—We Guarantee our Peo- 
nies true to name and will cheerfully replace any 
that prove to be otherwise after they have reached 
their normal blooming, period. 
Classification 
The Peony Albifiora, or Chinensis as it is more 
commonly catalogued, has by the American Peony 
Society been divided into eight types as follows: 
SINGLE—Those with a single row of wide 
guards, and a center of yellow pollen-bearing 
stamens. 
SEMI-DOUBLE—Those with several rows of 
wide petals, and a center of stamens, and par- 
tially transformed petaloids. Many of the reds 
are of this type. 
JAPANESE—These have wide guards the same 
as the Singles, but with the stamens and 
anthers greatly enlarged into narrow, thick 
petaloids of various colors, tipped with ves- 
tiges of the yellow anthers without pollen. 
ANEMONE—A_ step further 
doubling, with the stamens all transformed 
into short narrow petals, forming a round 
cushion in the center of the flower. 
in the process of 
CROW N—In this type wide petals are developed 
in the center of the flower, forming a high 
crown with the narrow, short petals forming a 
ring or collar around it. Often the crown and 
guards are one color, and the collar another 
or lighter shade. 
BOMB—The next step in which all the center 
petals are uniformly wide approaching the 
guards, but distinctly differentiated from them, 
forming a globe-shaped center without collar 
or crown. 
SEMI-ROSE—F lowers in which the petals are all 
uniformly wide, but are loosely built, with a 
few pollen-bearing stamens visible or nearly 
concealed. 
ROSE—The process of doubling is completed, all 
stamens fully transformed into evenly ar- 
ranged wide petaloids, similar to the guards, 
forming a perfect rose-shaped bloom. 
“The Quest of Love’’—Mrs. Pleas in her garden at the Pleasance. 
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