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The Elm City Nursery Co., New Haven, Conn. 
Herbaceous Paeonies are splendid as a cut 
flower. 
herbaceous 
paeonies, 
THE "piny," so called, of the old gardens 
was the then popular garden plant and 
down to the present day this old sort 
with its early crimson flowers has been in 
universal demand. 
To-day the variety of Paeonies is almost 
endless, for by hybridizing, the plant-grower 
has succeeded in producing such a variety of 
color that we now have them ranging from 
deepest crimson to purest white, in all imagin- 
able combinations, both single and double, 
and many of them quite fragrant. 
They are ideal garden plants and thrive in 
any good garden soil, have practically no 
enemies, and when once planted will thrive 
for years without transplanting, and are be- 
coming very popular. The list we offer is the 
cream of the best varieties. 
Tariettes* 
Note. The number to the left of the variety indicates the sizes we have to offer of that variety. 
See price list on opposite page. 
3,4. Alba -superba. Very double and pure white, tinted creamy yellow in center; fragrant 
and one of the best. 
1, 2, S, 4. Caroline Mather. Very large double, rosy crimson, and one of the best dark late 
varieties. 
Duke of Wellington. Sulphury white sort of fine form, recently sent out. Medium 
size, $1.00. 
1,2,3,4. Elegans. Outer petals rose; center full with curving and twisting petalets, shading 
from light rose to white. , 
Festiva Maxima. By many considered the best white yet introduced, both in color 
and form. Of the purest white, splashed with a few streaks of crimson, on the 
borders of the inner petalets. Medium size, $1.00. 
1,2,3,4. Fragrantissima. Early and very fine bloomer. One of the best varieties; with the 
outer row of petals clear rose, inner petalets very numerous, pointed, and as the 
flower develops often building up in the center into a solid cone of clear pink 
changing to white; very fragrant. 
1, 2, 3, 4. Francis Ortegal. Tall grower and late bloomer; flowers very large and of a deep 
maroon rose. 
1,2,3,4. Gigantea. Very free grower and. is also very large, full and of a deep pink. 
1,2,3,4. Gladstone. Delicate satiny pink petals, inner petalets of a uniform creamy pink, 
filling up to the center; very fine. 
1, 2, 3, 4. Humeii rosea. Enormous double flowers of a clear rose, and one of the latest to 
bloom. 
3, 4. Officinalis. Single deep crimson, yellow center; earliest to bloom. 
3, 4. Officinalis flora plena. Double deep crimson. Early. This is the crimson paeonia 
or piny of the old gardens. 
3, 4. Officinalis mutabalis. Very early, double, light pink splashed with deeper color. 
3, 4. Officinalis rosea plena. Very early, clear rose 
1, 2, 3, 4. Pauline. Rosy lilac, inner petalets broad and incurved and of a creamy white. 
1, 2, 3, 4. Reine Hortense. Late flowering; light rose and full to the center. 
3, 4. Tenuifolia. Known as the fern-leaved paeonia. It is a distinct species with deep 
crimson single flowers surrounded by clusters of fern-like foliage and blooms 
the earliest of all. 
1, 2, 3, 4. Thorbeckii. Deep red pink and fine form. 
The following varieties have bloomed at the nursery and are of the finest. 
1, 2, 3, 4. No. 4. Very strong. Very large 3, 4. No. 8. Double and yery deep red. A 
petals deep rosy red. Petalets numerous, Margin petalets yellow white to light 
narrow and twisted; from rose to white. pink again in center. Very attractive. 
3, 4. No. 6. Deep rosy red. Broad petals, 3, 4. No. 9. Clear pink, shading to white in 
several rows showing yellow center. center. Finely formed. 
3, 4. No. 7. Very full deep magenta rose. 1, 2, 3, 4. No. 11. Outer petals light pink. 
Beautiful form. splendid late sort. 
See page i for terms and special discounts. 
