PiEO'NIA EDTJLIS. 
Var. Reevesii. 
EATABLE P.EONY. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRl A. DIGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
uangnculacea:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
China. 
2 feet. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1822. 
No. 1111. 
The meaning of the classic name, Paeonia, is 
given under No. 1097. 
Paeonia edulis is very frequently called albidora, 
the former name is, however, preferable ; since it 
intimates the fact of its being eatable, whilst the 
latter intimates the falsity that its dowers are always 
white. A Paeony was published by Mr. Paxton, 
under the same name as our present one, which 
must have been altogether an error, it being de- 
scribed as a Moutan, or Tree Paeony, which has no 
connexion with Edulis. 
We have, on several occasions, invited attention 
to the numerous species and varieties of the Paeony, 
which are distributed over our private gardens and 
nurseries, but never met with together in a single 
collection. They are deserving of the best atten- 
tion of Oorists, and the more especially as they offer 
facilities for the propagation of new varieties, by 
cross-bearing, amongst the individuals of single 
species ; as well as by the hybridization of distinct 
species, all of which have much splendour of cha- 
racter. As an example of the varieties of one spe- 
cies — that under consideration, we will concisely 
