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then your case is hopeless. He sends them free for 
the asking, and the peony and iris grower, either ama¬ 
teur or professional, will find them decidedly interest¬ 
ing. At our request he has sent us the following article 
which should prove helpful to those thinking of growing 
peonies. 
BEGINNING THE PEONY GARDEN 
By Lee R. Bonnewitz 
The love of peonies and the desire to grow them 
usually takes possession of a person like an inspiration. 
Yesterday we hardly knew what the word “Peony’’ 
meant. Today we see a most wonderful flower which 
has been grown in our own climate, and we become pos¬ 
sessed with a desire to grow it in our own garden. Upon 
investigation we find a multitude of catalogues with 
a wealth of information, most of which, however, is 
written for the benefit of the advanced peony en¬ 
thusiast. This article, however, is written for the sole 
benefit of men and women who have seen magnificent 
peony blooms at the shows, but who have never seen 
the plants growing in a garden. 
Peony gardens are started by purchasing roots 
which continually grow larger from season to season, 
and which may be divided every three or four years, 
and each division thus made, if it possesses even a 
single eye or sprout will in three or four years become 
a full-sized peony plant, capable of producing as good 
blooms as any other plant of the same variety. Plants 
grown from divisions of roots always produce the same 
