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P iG O N I E S . I 



This is a beautiful class of hardy flowers, and none easier of culture, or will succeed with less^ 

 care. They will do well in any ordinary garden soil. The roots of the herbaceous species shou];^^ 

 be planted two or three inches beloM" the surface, and may remain for several years without remof^.4 

 al. They increase annually in size and abundance of flowers, and are beautiful objects in the flow- * 

 er garden among low shrubs or herbaceous plants, or when formed in elevated clumps on lawns. ^ 



The following list comprises a beautiful assortment. Nos. 1, 2, 10, 19, and 20, are splendid,- 

 showy, and much admired varieties. 



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HERBACEOUS FJEONIUS 



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BOTAKIC NAME. 



P^ONIA : 



rubra, 



rosea, , . . . . 



albicans, pi 



blanda, 



paradoxa firabritia 

 sinplicifolia, ... . 



edulis, 



vestalis, 



uniflora, 



rubescens,. ...... 



tartarica, 



tenuifolia, 



hybrida, 



Gre villi i, 



decora elatior, . . . 



Pallassii, 



Andersonii, 



humllis, 



humei, 



"♦Vhitlejii, 



$00 25 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 37 

 37 

 50 

 75 

 50 

 37 

 50 

 37 

 50 

 50 

 37 

 37 

 50 

 37 

 50 



COMMON NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 



Double Crimson ; very large and showy. 



Double Roseate ; large : rose color ; fragrant. 



Double ; pink, changing to white. 



Pale Blush ; downy leaved. 



Double Purple ; curiously fringed. 



j Single Purple. t» i 



j Siberian Edible ; flowers in clusters. |jif 



I Siberian Virgin White ; blooms in clusters. ► 



j Siberian White ; flowers solitary'. 



I Siberian Blush ; large, showy clusters. 



(Tartarian ; large, single, cluster-flowered. '_ ' 



iFennel Leaved ; single ; very dark crimsonlj 



Caucasian Violet. ' 



Greville's Crimson. 



Tall Comely ; single ; pink. 



iPallas' Blush : single. 



•Anderson's Blush ; pale. 



I Spanish ; bright rose ; showy. 



iChinese Double Crimson ; splendid and 



j ceedingly large flowers. 



IChinese Doxxble White ; large, beautifiil, 



I grant flowers, in clusters. 





TREE PJEONIES. 



(P.5:0yiA MOUTAN.) I 



This class of Paeonies are quite distinct from the preceding, forming shrubs four to five or wj 

 feet in height, spreading and bushy, and loaded with large, showy flowers of unrivalled beaut; j 

 No choice collection of shrubs can be at all complete without the Tree Pceony. i 



No, 



BOTANIC NA3IE. 



COMMON NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 



P^ONIA: j ■» 



banksii, j|l to 2 00 Chinese Double Blush ; large and splendi I 



very fragrant. 



rosea odorata, ' 2 to 3 00 Chinese Rose Colored; very large; sei 



[ double : fragrant flowers. 



papaveracea, ' 1 to 2 00 j Chinese Poppy Flowered ; single white, -v^^ 



I purple centre ; very large. 



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