STONYCROFT GARDENS 
LIST AND PRICES OF 
HERBACEOUS PAEONIES 
1916 
T HE object of this list is simply to give a list of varieties from which to sell roots. It 
is plain on purpose to be reasonable in price. To spend $300.00 for a list and $100.00 
for mailing would have to come out of the buyer. I prefer to put it into the roots. 
This I do; giving strong roots at. a fair price. A full page advertisement and a glow- 
ing catalogue is no insurance that the roots will be good or true to name. 1 do not believe in 
overpraising, or in rewriting descriptions in such terms as to catch customers. Plain descrip- 
tions and good roots shipped true to name, is better. To do this I attend to this business myself. 
It, has never been entrusted to help. For over fifteen years 1 have given my individual attention 
to studying and growing Paeonics. 1 have maintained a trial ground at my own expense, and 
bought from first hands every known good Paeony which l could learn about. The best in the 
world can be found here. I believe there is not another place in America where so many fine 
varieties can be found, or where one can get them with such certainty of their being just what 
they buy. 
1 do not sell small nursery roots. They do not give satisfaction. I have often shipped a 
bill of Paeonies and been informed the next year that every one bloomed, or that all bloomed but 
one. I do not say that they all will, but a good part of them will. Shipping season begins 
September 1st and lasts until freezing. 
Set them out well — it will be time well spent to do this the best possible. Use old manure — 
one year old anyway, (live the plants each spring after they come up some bone meal and some 
fertilizer — strong in potash - working them both in around the roots. Set, the eyes two to 
three inches below the surface. The flowers are not as perfect the first year or two as they will 
be after the plants are well established. 
1 do not believe in heralding the letters of recommendation which 1 have received. I could 
fill pages with them if 1 chose. 
I have exhibited my Paeony flowers before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for fif- 
teen years. In all this time all the blooms so exhibited have been cut from the field. 1 have 
never grown blooms in any way as a show bed to obtain show flowers. I have never exhibited 
for prizes but this society has awarded me 13 first class certificates of merit, three silver medals, 
and finally their Gold Medal. 
E. J. SHAYLOR 
FARM ON SOUTH AVENUE, WESTON 
MY POST OFFICE ADDRESS IS AUBURNDALE, MASS. 
