PEONIES THAT WON THE PRIZES 
Annual Meeting of the American Peony Society, Reading, Pa. 
B EOPLE who grow Peonies are thorough-going garden- 
ers. They come to the meetings of their Society, 
many travelling great distances, and they bring blooms 
from afar — the fact that the blooms at the place of 
meeting may not be in perfection at the moment of the exhibi- 
tion does not mar its success. Easterners were glad to welcome 
their Western friends on June 10th and i ith and to talk Peonies 
in particular, and gardening lore in general. 
If a few “high spot” invidious selections may be made prob- 
ably Therese, Le Cygne, and Jubilee, not forgetting the old 
Festiva Maxima, will live in the memory of this gathering. 
Of course there were others and as representative of the 
leading varieties we may name the prize winning collections in 
the open class for ten varieties, three blooms of each. Mr. 
James Boyd, Pa., took first honours with these varieties: 
Therese, Le Cygne, M. Jules Elie, Mme. Calot, M. Martin 
Cahuzac, Jubilee, Felix Crousse, Festiva Maxima, Marguerite 
Gerard, Mme. Emile Lemoine. The second place, and no mean 
one at that went to Mr. E. M. Buechly, of Ohio, with La France, 
Festiva Maxima, Therese, Le Cygne, Jubilee, Karl Rosenfield, 
M. Jules Elie, Mme de Verneville, Frances Willard, La Verne. 
These lists can serve prospective purchasers as a pretty good 
guide for the basis of making a collection that will give both 
quality, variety, and some rarity. 
In the individual classes the prize winning varieties were as 
follows: White or cream, Duchesse de Nemours and Festiva 
Maxima; light pink or pink and cream, Octavie Demay; dark 
pink, Edulis Superba; red or crimson, Louis van Houtte; all 
of which were shown in the classes calling for twenty blooms. 
Mr. Bonnewitz’s Jubilee carried off the honors in the six 
specimens, any variety, with M. Jules Elie the variety in 
second place. For the best single bloom the variety Le Cygne 
won both first and second prizes. 
In the advanced amateurs’ collection of ten named varieties, 
three blooms of each, the winners were, first: Le Cygne, Kel- 
way’s Glorious, Mary Woodbury Shaylor, Mignon, Therese, 
Lady A. Duff, Boule de Neige, Festiva Maxima, Adolphe Tous- 
seau, M. Martin Cahuzac; and in the second place exhibit the 
most noteworthy blooms were: Le Cygne, Lady A. Duff, Agnes 
Mary Kelway. For fifteen blooms of any one variety Adolphe 
Rousseau took the honors. 
In the novice classes the leading varieties were: white. Jubilee, 
M. Dupont, Avalanche; light pink or pink and cream, Eugenie 
Verdier, Marguerite Gerard; dark pink, Mme. Geissler; red or 
crimson, Karl Rosenfield; and the best six blooms from a 
member of the Society who had never before exhibited the 
winning display was Souvenir de Gaspard Calot. 
Of course there were lots of other varieties and large collec- 
tions in the display of a hundred blooms each. The range was 
very great and covered all the favorites already enumerated, 
and many others. It was notable that the Brand varieties 
occupied prominent positions in the larger collections — in its 
crimson class, Longfellow has achieved a front rank place, and 
Judge Berry, a fine pink was impressive. 
The Society has had its most prosperous year and has added 
83 members to the roll. Next years’ exhibition and annual 
meeting will take place in Boston in conjunction with the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society and it is suggested that Canada 
be visited in 1922. Mr. Lee R. Bonnewitz, Van Wert, Ohio, 
was re-elected President with Mr. A. P. Saunders, Clinton, 
N. Y., as Secretary. 
L. B. 
A BOUQUET OF PRIZE WINNING BLOOMS 
Grown by Mr. Lee R. Bonnewitz in Ohio this three year old root of Jubilee (Mrs. Pleas’ production) 
carried 16 buds, of which 14 were taken to the Reading, Pa., meeting.- Twelve won prizes 
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