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give a brief selection, and if a greater variety bfc needed the 
reader must refer to the catalogues issued by specialists. 
Hybrid Double Chinese Peonies. — A. J. Hunter, rose; 
Coronation, light pink and creamy flesh ; Dorothy Daniels, 
primrose, pink and white ; Dr. Bonavia, pink ; Ella Christine 
Kelway, soft lavender ; Geraldine, pink, with creamy-white 
centre ; Gerald Stubbs, rosy-carmine ; Gravetye, flesh ; Joan 
Seaton, cherry-rose; Lady Alexandra Duff, French white ; Lady 
Beresford, soft blush pink ; Lady Curzon, white, cream and 
blush; Limosel, lilac-rose; Mrs. Gwyn Lewis, white; Duchess 
of Somerset, delicate rose ; Grandeur, lilac-rose ; Kelway’s 
Queen, flesh pink ; Lady Carrington, flesh ; Marchioness of 
Lansdowne, flesh white ; Maria Kelway, blush ; Mountebank, 
pink and lemon ; Mrs. George Bunyard, bright rose ; Lady 
of the West, rose and creamy-white ; Duchess de Nemours, 
white and primrose ; Queen of Beauty, pink and cream. 
Hybrid Single-flowered Chinese Pjmxnies. — The follow- 
ing single varieties are exceptionally beautiful and showy, 
either for garden decoration or for cutting for indoor decora- 
tion. The colours are charmingly set off by the bunch of 
golden stamens in the centre of each flower : Meteor, dazzling 
crimson ; Mrs. Earl, rose ; Countess Cadogan, flesh ; Duchess 
of Sutherland, flesh-pink; Frank Bramley, ruby-purple; 
Heart’s Desire, pink and peach ; Ideality, deep rose ; Kitty 
W'ardell, rosy-lilac ; Lady Helen Vincent, white and flesh ; 
Lady Jeune, blush white ; Lord Annaly, crimson ; Miss Ida 
Chamberlain, light rose; Modesty, blush pink; Mrs. Temple- 
man, rosy pink ; Mrs. Vernon Harcourt, flesh ; Philip H. 
Miller, rubv-madder ; Purity, white ; Stanley, maroon -crimson ; 
Pride of Iangport, soft peach-pink ; The Lady, rosy-lilac ; 
The Queen, white and blush ; T. W. Sanders, rich purple ; 
Dorothy, delicate pink ; Pride, rich crimson ; and Lady Godiva, 
white flushed with pink. 
May-flowering Peonies. — The following are very hardy 
and suitable for growing in woodland borders, wild garden, 
or growing in bold groups on the turf : Abietiana Andersoni, 
purple-crimson, single; Decora Miss Jekyll, crimson, single; 
officinalis alba plena, white, double ; officinalis anemone flora, 
blood-crimson and maroon, single; officialis rubra plena, rich 
crimson, double; Broteri, crimson; peregrina Blushing Maid, 
blush-pink; tenuifolia rosea, blush-rose, single; and tenui- 
folia, crimson. 
Imperial P/EONIES. — A new race of single or semi-double 
pseonies of great charm and beauty. The flowers have 
shell-like guard petals of goblet shape, filled to the rim with 
golden, cream, or white petaloids. The colours are of pleasing 
artistic tints and are most beautiful. This new type has been 
