1 934 PRICE LIST 
T TITH the issue of our 1934 cata¬ 
log, we have made a departure in the 
method of listing our peonies, which 
we hope will be of assistance to our 
customers. 
In the past it has been our practice 
to list all of the peonies in alphabetical 
order, separating them only as dou¬ 
bles, singles and Japanese types. We 
have never given long descriptions of 
the peonies, as most of them, with the 
exception of the very new varieties can 
be found fully described in the Manual 
of the American Peony Society (this 
is a book which would be valuable for 
the library of any peony lover. Our 
Gate House Store can supply it for you 
at the publisher's price of $3.00). In 
this Manual you will find an impartial 
description of the various varieties, 
and we feel that some of our customers 
would do better to be guided by the 
descriptions given in this Peony Man¬ 
ual than to take the somewhat glowing 
accounts often given of inferior varie¬ 
ties by writers who may not be ac¬ 
quainted with some of the newer and 
better sorts. We do our best to make 
our descriptions accurate and true, 
but like anyone else we have our favor¬ 
ites and we are sometimes inclined to 
