BRAND PEONY FARMS, Inc. 
Introduction 
A. M. BRAND. 
Q 
UALITY PAYS. During the many years that we 
have been in business, we have felt that the best 
thing that we could do for our customers was 
to give quality in the stock that we sent them. We are 
not ready to change our policy, even in this period of 
depression. 
While we are writing this catalog, we hear offered 
over the radio, fifty perennials, together with a peony 
root and a package of seed, for only one dollar. Anyone 
who knows anything about the work required to raise 
perennials, and to so handle them that they will reach 
the customer in good growing condition, knows that 
good stock cannot be offered at such a price. Such 
“bargains” must prove a disappointment to those who 
take advantage of them, and we do not see how they 
can bring return orders to the grower. 
Through a careful check of our mailing list, we find 
that we receive each year return orders from 60 per 
cent of our customers. For additional business we 
depend upon the recommendation of these satisfied 
customers, together with our catalog and a small 
amount of magazine advertising. 
In this catalog we have listed stock at prices which will insure excellent stock to our custo¬ 
mers, a fair wage to our help, and a small return to us. We trust that this spring we may receive 
orders from more than 60 per cent of our former customers, and we urge each person who re¬ 
ceives a copy of this catalog and has never made a purchase of us to send us a trial order, that 
we may prove to him that QUALITY PAYS. 
More Bloom—Finer Quality from 
BRAND DIVISION PEONY ROOTS 
It is unfortunate that Peonies have to be sold according to a certain price per root; 
because, unless due discretion is used as to the size, kind and quality of the root, the 
price alone means nothing. 
That is why we have standardized a type and quality of root now generally known to 
the Peony world as “A Brand Division.” 
We insist upon making our divisions from hardy plants of two and three years’ growth, 
but we do not approve of TWO OR 
THREE-YEAR OLD CLUMPS. Con¬ 
trary to a common opinion that large 
clumps are essential for quick blooming, 
we know from experience that they prove 
to be disappointing. 
Only a large, clean division, handled by 
specialized labor according to these stand¬ 
ards, can qualify as “A Brand Division.” 
That is why no Peonies in our list are 
priced lower than $1.00. A root that could 
be produced and sold for less is not com¬ 
parable in quality to “A Brand Division.” 
When you figure the cost of your peonies, not according to 
the price per root, but according to the size and beauty of 
bloom—the quality and quantity of yield—then you will find 
that no other peonies cost so little as those which are grown 
from “Brand Divisions.” 
It is not unusu¬ 
al for BRAND 
PEONIES to bloom 
the year planted. 
Plant this spring 
and see if we are 
not correct. 
In every part of 
the world, where 
beautiful flowers 
are loved and ad¬ 
mired, B r a n d's 
American Peonies 
are justly famous. 
BRAND PEONY FARMS, Inc. 
Box 408 
FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA 
A. M. BRAND, President MYRTLE GENTRY, Sec’y-Treas. 
