TREE PEONY YAMATO BENI 
TREE PEONY BANKSII 
TREE PEONIES 
Paul J. Howard takes pleasure in presenting now this wonderful col¬ 
lection of a rare class of lovely flowers. The Tree Peonies will bring a new 
delight to the ever-increasing number of garden enthusiasts who love to 
grow flowers of startling beauty—flowers that will excite the wonder and 
admiration of all who behold them. 
Unlike the common or herbaceous Peonies, the Tree Peonies do not 
die completely down each winter, but grow into shrubs or bushes 3 to 5 
feet high, and are perfectly suited to California climatic conditions. 
The Tree Peony is native to the Orient, where much hybridizing has been practiced, 
producing huge flowers of amazing beauty, while some of our finest varieties have come 
from France. True garden aristocrats, they will never become commonplace because of the 
difficulty in obtaining stock. 
YAMATO BENI. The beautiful crepe-like texture of the petals, the great size and 
handsome formation, with the rich rose-crimson color, which fairly glows with warmth 
make this a flower of outstanding beauty. $5.00 each. 
BANKSII. These huge, fully double flowers are a lovely rose-pink hue, with deeper 
rose and lavender shades. Everyone admires it. $4.00 each. 
TENJIO NO HOMARE. An exceptionally fine variety, huge in size, with lovely 
large petals like silk. Clear deep pink. $5.00 each. 
FUCI NO MINE. Very large double snowy white, clear and glistening. $5.00 each. 
COLLECTION: One each of above four marvellous Tree Peonies $17.50. 
PEONY MOUTAN. (See color illustration on page 76.) This is the best known of 
the Tree Peonies and an exceptionally strong growing one, forming large bushes with deep 
wine-purple single to semi-double flowers with bright golden stamens. $2.00 each. 
For later planting, and for those desiring older specimens we have 
established in pots and boxes a marvellous collection of more than thirty 
varieties of the rare and lovely Tree Peonies, prices $6.50 to $20.00 each. 
CULTURE OF TREE PEONIES 
Tree Peonies thrive in partial shade, or where 
they receive full sun for half of the day. The 
filtered sunlighl provided by trees or tall shrubs 
is ideal. They like a rich soil and do very well 
in soils as heavy as "adobe" provided that drain¬ 
age is good. As with nearly all plants, a well 
drained soil is essential. 
In planting dig a hole at least 18 inches to 
two feet deep and as wide. Prepare good loam 
thoroughly mixed with well-rotted manure and a 
little bone meal for refilling the hole. 
The plants we supply are grafted, and should 
be placed in the hole so that when the soil is 
filled in the graft-union will be covered, as well 
as two or three eyes, (or buds) above the graft. 
It is well to place a little Peat Moss next to the 
stem so that root growth develops above the graft. 
After placing the plant, firm the soil carefully 
around the plant, and water thoroughly. 
It is important to keep the plants well watered 
during the growing season. Feed with a mixture 
of bone and blood meal immediately after the 
flowering season, and again in late summer to 
induce the development of new flower-buds. 
The flower stalks should be cut off after the 
petals have dropped, and in fall cut back the 
stems to the first or second well developed bud. 
After several seasons roots will have developed 
above the graft, and the plants will then be 
growing on their own roots and will produce an 
increasing number of shoots from the ground, 
forming a large clump. A well established bush 
will bear from 25 to 100 flowers—a truly gor¬ 
geous sight when in full bloom. 
The plants listed are two and three-year-old 
dormant bushes supplied from December to March 
15, and planted early ivill usually bloom the first 
year. 
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