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Some New Paeonias. 
Floral Treasure. Golden Harvest. 
TWO NEW PAEONIAS. 
Two new Paeonias have recently been put upon the 
market, grown in Nebraska. 
One is Golden Harvest ; this does not show all its 
beauty at first, but when about three years old the 
flower comes to perfection. Outer petals flesh, inner 
ones golden, and in the center of the flower there is 
a little one in miniature— like condensed Festiva Max- 
ima — of snowy white, sprinkled with carmine, it is 
very fragrant and ranks among our best. 
Floral treasure is a hemisphere of marvelous beauty 
— 6 inches in diameter — light pink, fading to white. 
It has a long stem and florists are securing it for a 
cut flower. It was first put upon the market at $10 
per ioo, but it has now reached a price of $50 per 100 
wholesale. 
The York (Neb.) Experiment Station, under the 
care of the writer, has some 400 kinds and among 
them some entirely new ones of rare beauty. The in- 
terest in this flower is on the increase. It is hardier 
than the pie plant ; it is a success in Manitoba and all 
the Southwest. For parks and private grounds it is 
without a rival.' 
West of the Missouri River Azaleas, Kalmias and 
Rhododendrons cannot be raised, but the Paeonia in 
its various forms supplies the place of all of them, 
and nowhere on earth is there a finer display to be 
found than in the prairie states. C. S. Harrison. 
Acer saccharinum. 
By James MacPiierson. 
Canadians may well be proud of their maple for the 
exquisite tints of its autumn foliage, its superb develop- 
ment and its usefulness. All of its qualities are bet- 
ter brought out northward. It ranges southward to 
don, Ont., was born. The trunk is 15 feet in circum- 
ference and measures 75 feet from tip to tip of the 
widest branches. The tree was three or four inches 
in diameter in 1809, when it stood in the forest. 
the mountains, and sugar used 
to be made from it in West Vir- 
ginia, but the tree is less fine and 
its autumn leaves less brilliant 
as it ^extends toward Dixie. 
There are fine avenues occasion- 
ally seen as far south as south- 
ern New Jersey, or even Mary- 
land. The var. Floridanum, of 
Chapman, is referred by the 
Kew authorities to A. grandi- 
dentatum, a smaller growing 
species occurring also in Texas 
and the Rocky mountains. 
The Norway maple is being 
pushed by many nurserymen, 
but' it also is smaller growing, 
and altogether a less noble and 
useful tree than the magnificent 
sugar maple shown in the illus- 
tration. 
This tree is over a 100 years 
old, and stands on the farm of 
Mr. John Pearce, near Tyrcon- 
nell, Ont., where John S. Pearce 
Parks Superintendent of Lon- 
ACER SACCHARINUM (SUGAR MAPLE) AT TYRCONNELL, ONT. 
