PiEO'NIA ED'ULIS. 
Variety; fragrans. 
ROSE-SCENTED EATABLE PjEONY. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. D1GYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCULACEA2. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
China. 
2 feet. 
Jane. 
Perennial. 
in 1805. 
No. 451. 
Paeon, after whom this genus was named, was one 
of those personages known only by the fables of the 
ancients. Edulis, from the edible quality of the 
roots and seeds. 
Under a former number, 311, we published one 
of the varieties of the beautiful Paeonia edulis. The 
increased attention to them, and the beauty, not to 
say magnificence, of the varieties of even this one 
species alone, certainly demand further notice. 
The sweet-scented Chinese Paeony was introduced 
to this country, by Sir Joseph Banks, in the year 
1805; but this is believed to be the second introduc- 
tion to England of the same plant. We are not 
aware, whether, by culture only, or whether by seed- 
ling varieties, it has happened that a difference 
occurs in the colour of the sweet-scented Paeony ; 
it is, however, certain that plants may be sometimes 
seen with much paler flowers than the individual 
from which our drawing was taken. 
By the liberality of the London Horticultural 
Society, many good collections of Paeonies are now 
distributed through the country; and where space 
will admit, they should not be neglected. They 
