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BRAND PEONY FARMS, Inc. 
Descriptive List of Brand’s New Peonies 
BLANCHE KING (A. M. Brand 1925). Deep pink. Peony 
lovers have been constantly searching for a good, deep, 
late pink. We have now found this flower in Blanche 
King. This new variety is of wonderful size, symmet¬ 
rical, and of true rose type. It is a glowing deep pink 
that holds its color in the field and also develops into a 
wonderful show flower. This variety was first exhibited 
at the National Peony Show held in London, Ont., Can¬ 
ada, in 1922. Here it received an award of merit and 
attracted a great deal of attention. Our stock was lim¬ 
ited at that time and we sold more stock of this variety 
than we should. We did not exhibit this variety again 
until this season at the St. Paul Show. Here Blanche 
King was very much in evidence as we had sufficient 
stock to again make a good showing. Here it was 
awarded the prize for the best flower at the show and 
also won first in a class of twenty best dark pink. 
A Brand Division $5.00. 
COMMANDER (A. M. Brand 
1928). Red. An extra large, 
high built flower; very com¬ 
pact. A cone-shaped rose 
type Peony. Color a true self 
solferino-red. Although late, 
it blooms consistently, which 
cannot be said of most late 
varieties. After every other 
red in our fields was gone 
this year, we could still go 
out and bring in excellent 
flowers of this variety for 
our show room. A real ac¬ 
quisition to our quality list 
of Brand’s reds. 
A Brand Division $5.00. 
EDI.A CHRISTIANSEN (A. M. 
Brand 1925). 9.0. Pink. Al¬ 
though not so deep a pink 
as Blanche King, Ella Chris¬ 
tiansen is so distinct from 
the delicate pinks in color¬ 
ing as to be a real acquisi¬ 
tion. The flower is exceed¬ 
ingly large, both on the 
plant in the field and when 
handled as a cut flower. As 
a bloomer, it is probably the 
most profuse of this exclu¬ 
sive list. Petals are long, 
narrow and heavily serrated 
on the edges. The flower 
first opens cup-shaped, then 
flat. Irresistibly appealing— 
Ella Christiansen receives 
the unbounded praise of 
every visitor. We like it 
better every year. 
A Brand Division $5.00. 
HANSINA BRAND (A. M. Brand 1925). 9.1. Pink. A flow¬ 
er of beautiful form and great size. Plant very tall and 
strong; holds the mammoth blooms erect. Color glis¬ 
tening flesh-pink with a salmon reflex shading toward 
the base of the petals. Very distinct. As it fades, it re¬ 
sembles a perfectly formed specimen of Solange, for 
which it is often mistaken in our show room. Yet 
Solange sometimes fails to develop its flowers at all or 
produces imperfect bloom, while Hansina Brand comes 
good every year. One of the very best of this particular 
group. A Brand Division $5.00. 
HAZEL KINNEY (A. M. Brand 1925). 9.0. Delicate pink. 
I can still remember this beautiful flower as it ap¬ 
peared on the plant the first time. The form was so 
superb and the color so pure; it impressed us at once 
as a flower of great promise, which it since has proved. 
A great show flower when displayed alongside the very 
best. True rose type. Color a delicate clear hydrangea- 
pink. Medium height plant; clean, light green foliage; 
late midseason; a prolific bloomer. 
A Brand Division $5.00. 
LAVERNE CHRISTMAN (A. M. Brand). 8.9. Pink. A 
very large deep pink of varied shadings. The flower re¬ 
sembles a good Therese. The plant is tall and a vigor¬ 
ous grower. This variety received an Award of Merit 
at St. Paul, Minn., in the National Show held during 
1923. Very late. A Brand Division $5.00. 
FROM KENTUCKY 
May 29, 1933. 
I had six lovely blooms from a two-year-old Blanche King, three 
of the flowers being very large and nice. 
MRS. A. M. BRAND (A. M. Brand 1925). 9.6. Pure white. 
When this flower was a two-year-old, we were first at¬ 
tracted with its large, uniform, remarkable white 
blooms; the clean, thrifty, light green stocks; the lux¬ 
uriant foliage. Blooms cut in the bud and taken inside 
develop in remarkable form. Opens a pure, glistening 
white; pure rose type; a large, flat flower with prom¬ 
inent guards and petals of wonderful substance. Re¬ 
ceived the Gold Medal of the American Peony Society, 
St. Paul, 1923. Very late. A Brand Division $5.00. 
MRS. DEANE PUNK (A. M. Brand). Too new to be 
rated. Pink. Large and peculiarly beautiful in forma¬ 
tion. The broad guards and half of the petals turn 
outward, gracefully downward, then up. Next is a dis¬ 
tinct band of golden stamens as in Phyllis Kelway. 
Lighting up the entire flower, these stamens enclose 
a rosebud, cup-shaped center of large incurving petals. 
Color a Walter Faxon pink. 
Magnificent in the show 
room; holds up well as a cut 
flower; beautiful in the field. 
Among the five or six best 
seedlings we ever produced. 
A Brand Division $5.00. 
MRS. PRANK BEACH (A. M. 
Brand 1925). 9.0. Ivory- 
white. A very large, flat, 
perfect rose type flower 
with long, narrow, laciniated 
petals of the same lacy ef¬ 
fect as in Jubilee. Blooms 
equally large as Jubilee but 
borne finely erect on rather 
dwarfish plants with very 
strong stems. Much as we 
admire Jubilee, it is handi¬ 
capped by a weak stem. 
Mrs. Frank Beach is a glor¬ 
ified Jubilee. Deep cream, it 
fades but little even when 
developed in the field. Like 
Le Cygne, this variety de¬ 
velops a flower true to type 
even on a yearling. Blooms 
profusely as a two-year-old. 
Received an Award of Merit, 
American Peony Society, 
London, Ontario, 1922. Late 
midseason. Sweetly fragrant. 
A Brand Division $5.00. 
MRS. HARRIET GENTRY 
(A. M. Brand 1925). White. 
One of the mo>t refined 
flowers in the list. Another 
white of most perfect rose 
type. Petals very large, of 
the purest glistening white, 
arranged in wonderful per¬ 
fection. Comparable to a perfect specimen of that won¬ 
derful flower, Mirielle. Mrs. Harriet Gentry invariably 
blooms well with flowers of utmost beauty, while 
Mirielle gives perfect bloom so seldom that we do not 
recommend it. A Brand Division $5.00. 
MRS. JOHN M. KEEITSCH (A. M. Brand 1925). 9.0. Pink. 
The flower that claimed everyone’s attention the third 
day of the St. Paul-Minneapolis show. On the first day 
the buds taken to this show just started to open; the 
second day they were about half out; the third dav 
they were in full bloom—the most remarkable vase of 
Peonies in the whole vast room. Color a violet-rose 
with distinct lavender cast. Petals long, broad, pointed, 
of great substance. Pleasing and perfect in form—a 
wonderful flower of true rose type. Very late; fragrant. 
Took first prize as the best flower in the entire show, 
1928 Northwest Peony and Iris Show. 
A Brand Division $5.00. 
MRS. ROMAINE B. WARE (A. M. Brand 1925). 9.1. Pink. 
One of rhe most delicately beautiful Peonies ever pro¬ 
duced. First selected from the seed bed because of its 
striking beauty of form. True rosebud effect in the 
center, the petals radiating in peculiar fashion to give 
a pleasing effect to the entire bloom. Returning from 
the National Show at Boston, I stopped with my good 
friend Harry F. Little. Mrs. Romaine B. Ware was in 
full bloom. Of this wonderful flower Mr. Little said, 
“I think this one of the daintiest of all Peonies in its 
perfect beauty.” Exquisitely delicate; medium size; 
rose type. Medium height plant; profuse bloomer; mid¬ 
season. Fragrant. A Brand Division $5.00. 
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Mrs. John M. Kleitsch made only two flowers as a 2-year-old, but 
one of them was fine; and ivhat a darling shade of pink this one is. 
Mrs. A. M. Brand. 
