AVING received so many 

 letters asking for an article 

 on the Japanese lotus-flow- 

 ered peonies it gives me 

 pleasure to include in this 

 issue the essay 1 contemplated for a 

 future number 5S S& 

 ^Japanese lotus-flowered peonies are not 

 really lotus flowers, you know. About 

 four years ago when 1 spoke of these 

 Japanese peonies at the fir^ of a series 

 of Garden Talks given for the benefit of 

 the International Child Welfare League, 

 I fairly begged all the flower lovers who 

 attended to plant at least one root of 

 each of the six single, lotus-flowered form 

 peonies and judge for themselves whether 

 I was too extravagant in my praise 33 

 ^ I am very glad to be able to tell you 

 that many amateur gardeners did plant 



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