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The Garden Magazine, September , 1920 
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The Brand Peonies 
Originated by 0. F. Brand & Son, 
America’ s foremost hybridizers of the Peony 
500,000 Peony Roots 
We now have an immense stock of 500.000 roots of the very choicest 
Peonies grown. 
This immense stock allows our customers the selection of almost any variety 
they may want in any size desired whether a division or a one. two. three or 
four year clump as they may wish. 
Our Growing Methods 
We have made it a practice ever since the growing of Peonies became a 
specialty with us, never to grow Peonies twice on the same location without a 
long period of years intervening. In this way we have avoided many of the 
difficulties and disappointments encountered by other growers who have grown 
their roots year after year on the same ground, and by doing so. we have kept 
the roots of our stock free from disease and have been enabled to send to our 
customers roots such as they write us “they have never received before.” 
We own at Faribault 200 acres of the very choicest nursery land. Land which in pioneer 
days was covered with some of the choicest hard wood timber in America. Land which when 
cleared grew wonderful crops of chat wheat which has long since made the name “Minnesota’* 
famous. Such soil is ideal nursery soil. 
It is the possession of these 200 acres of land which enables us to constantly shift our 
Peony beds, and this wonderful soil that permits us to send our customers roots of ;>uch unusual size. 
Our Guarantee 
We guarantee our Peonies absolutely true to name. That our stock is free from disease, 
except in the case of those varieties which are always diseased and which we advise our cus- 
tomers not to buy. And that the stock which we send out for size and constitutional vigor 
is unsurpassed. 
Our Stock Is Handled by Experts 
We are enabled to make this guarantee because our business is handled at every stage by 
experts. 
In the first place, the roots which you purchase from us are grown in Ideal Peony Soil. 
They are planted, cultivated, dug. and after being dug, handled by experienced help. From 
the instant a root leaves the ground until it is boxed and ready for shipment, it is in the hands 
of experienced labor. 
Many of our men have been with us for over twenty years. The father of my head Peony 
man in the field, worked for my father handling Peonies in the sixties. 
All of these things taken together, with the fact that your Peonies from us are handled 
from the time they leave the ground, up to the time they leave for the transportation company 
under cover, auay from the air in cur Immense Insulated Storage Building. 
The Largest Storage Building in the World 
devoted to the handling of Peonies, permits us to supply you with an article that cannot be 
surpassed. 
Personal Inspection 
And finally we are able to make this guarantee because Mr. Brand personally inspects 
every Peony order after it has been collected, and before it passes on to the boxers for boxing. 
Such Peonies and Peonies so handled, are bound to please you. 
We issue a beautiful catalogue covering the entire stock of Peonies we have for sale. This 
catalogue is yours for the asking if you are really interested in Peonies. 
But there are many to whom the Peony is new and to whom the catalogue with its 
multitude of descriptions would be of little value. 
For the benefit of such, we suggest the following collections of very choice sorts. 
COLLECTION A 
12 Best Standard Varieties 
Albert Crousse, Pink $1.50 
Alice de Juivecourt, Pink 50 
Avalanche, White 1.00 
Baroness Schroeder, White 1.50 
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$12.50 
The entire twelve roots delivered boxed to the express 
company for you for $10.00. 
Courrone d’Orr, White 
Felix Crousse, Red . 
Matilde de Roseneck, Pink 
Messonier, Red 
Monsieur Dupont, White 
Octavie Demay, Pink 
Pierre Dessert, Red 
Rachel, Red 
COLLECTION B 
Supeib Collection Brand Peonies 
Ben Franklin, Red . $2.00 
Amanda Yale, White 5 00 
Aunt Ellen, Red 75 
Ella W. Wilcox, Pink 3.00 
Fanny Crosby, Yellow 3.00 
Little Sweetheart, Pink 75 
Midnight, Black 3.00 
Mrs. Carew, Pink 3.00 
Ruth Brand, Pink 2.50 
Wm. Penn, Rose 1.00 
$24760 
This entire collection Brand Superb Peonies ten varieties 
boxed ready for shipment for $20.00. 
COLLECTION C 
Brand's Masterpiece Collection 
Brand’s Magnificent, Red $25 00 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, White 25 00 
Frances Willard, White 10.00 
Henry Avery, Yellow and Cream 10 00 
Luetta Pfeiffer, Pinkish White 25 00 
Judge Berry, Pink . 10 00 
Longfellow, Red 1 0 00 
Martha Bullock, Pink 25 00 
Mary Brand, Red 7 50 
Mrs. A. G. Ruggles, Pink 10 00 
Phoebe Carey, Pink 1 0 00 
Richard Carvel, Red 5.00 
$172.50 
This entire collection twelve varieties. Every one a Brand 
Masterpiece. Our large regular size retail roots. All for $135.00. 
Send at once for our Beautiful New Catalogue now ready 
A. M. BRAND, Faribault, Minnesota 
(41 years a professional Peony grower) 
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