These are all rarely lovely, with blue and cream flowers. There 

 are such gems as : 



Boule Blanche pure white. 



Duchesse de Nemours pure white, sulphur yellow center. 



Solfaterre pure white, sulphur yellow center. 



Albatre snow white, clouded soft rose. 



La Fiancee white, center filled with yellow stamens. 



La Vestale primrose white. 



Golden Harvest pale gold. 



Alsace-Lorraine white-chamois gold. 



Meteor brilliant vivid crimson (single). 



Rubra Superba crimson suffused purple. 



Souvenir de I'Exposition Univer- 



selle strikingly vivid cerise. 



Warwick crimson. 



Tenuifolia scarlet crimson (single). 



Tenuifolia flora pleno scarlet crimson. 



Mme. Bucquet velvet-amaranth. 



Agida flame red. 



Etta soft hydrangea pink. 



Mme. Calot flesh white, clouded chamois. 



Rose d'Amour delicate carnation pink. 



Pride of Langport peachy-pink. 



Eugenie Verdier delicate hydrangea pink. 



Stanley silvery mauve-rose. 



Rosy Dawn . . . blush water lily. 



LaTulipe rose, cream, carmine. 



Limosel clear lilac-rose. 



Octavie Demay (DwarO soft hydrangea pink. 



Prince George satin purple. 



Decaisue violet, coral suffusion. 



Augustine d'Hour purple, silver. 



Pottse plena purple. 



Victoire de I'Alma violet, scarlet. 



Madame Geissler violet, rose. 



Etienne Mechin purple, red. 



Monsieur Paul Risbourg .... purple, mauve. 

 Philomene violet, rose, amber. 



JAPANESE PEONIES 



The Japanese Peonies are in a distinct class of their own. 

 There are about twenty remarkable varieties of such extraor- 

 dinary size and form and coloring that to describe them would 



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