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CHAS. FIORE NURSERIES, PRAIRIE VIEW, ILLINOIS 
PEONIES FOR COLOR MASSES 
At no time during the growing season does a peony 
planting look unsightly, for its beautiful green and 
dense foliage always harmonizes well with the land¬ 
scape. This fact really makes Peonies indispensable in 
a landscape project. 
WE SELL OUR PEONIES IN LARGE CLUMPS TO 
OBTAIN IMMEDIATE EFFECT AND NOT 3 TO 5 
EYE DIVISIONS. 
Asa Gray (Crousse 1886). Although this variety was in¬ 
troduced quite a few years ago, it has always been 
rather scarce. Unique flowers of milk-white thickly 
sprinkled with minute carmine dots, the total effect 
being delicate pink. Mid-season. 
Each Per doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 1.25 12.50 
Baroness Schroeder (Kelway 1889). If we had to name the 
best white Peony in the popular price class, we would 
not hesitate a second to name Baroness Schroeder, a 
late bloomer. The petals are white with soft baby pink 
center. The flower is of immense size, globular type. 
Deliciously fragrant. 
Each Per doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 1.25 12.50 
Felix Crousse (Crousse 1881). Rose type. Rich, even, bril¬ 
liant, ruby-red. Late mid-season. Very effective. Fra¬ 
grant. 
Each Ter doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 90 9.00 
Festiva Maxima (Miellez 1851). Early, pure white with 
carmine touched center. Free bloomer; fragrant. Most 
popular white in existence. 
Each Ter doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 50 5.00 
Gigantea —Early midseason. Enchanting coloring; an ex¬ 
quisite shade of bright pink or lilac-rose, tipped with 
silvery white, reflecting a' silvery sheen. Has an agree¬ 
able spicy June rose fragrance. Blossoms 7 to 8 inches 
across, occasionally 10 to 12 inches. Rose type. On ac¬ 
count of the enormous size of the stems, sometimes 
need support. 
Each Per doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 1.00 10.00 
Karl Rosenfield (Rosenfield 1908). The flower is large, of 
semi-rose type, a perfect ball-like form when fully opened, 
of a most perfect, rich, deep brilliant crimson, on long 
straight stem; slightly fragrant. The plant is tall, 
strong and upright in growth, and bears a large strik¬ 
ingly brilliant flower on every stem. The foliage is 
rich dark green. Blooms early mid-season. Both for 
landscape planting and cut flowers this Peony has proven 
ideal. 
Each Per doz. 
1.25 12.50 
La France (Lemoine 1901). The color is a La France pink, 
finishing soft apple blossom pink as the flower ages, 
slightly reflecting mauve. The outer guards have a 
spla'sh of crimson through the center, deepening at the 
base. The flower appears to light up and glow wonder¬ 
fully. Deliciously fragrant. The variety produces an 
abundance of enormous full, rather flat, perfectly double 
flowers of rose type. Blooms late in mid-season. 
Each Per doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 5.00 50.00 
Le Cygne (The Swan) (Lemoine 1907). No name could better 
describe this variety; the grandest of the white flowers 
that you ever beheld; foliage of a darker green than 
most other Peonies; globular, compact type of bloom 
with a true June rose fragrance. 
Each Per doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 15.00 150.00 
Livingstone (Crousse 1879). Very massive, solid light pink. 
Perfect rose type; very large and compact flower. Odor¬ 
less. Livingstone should be in every collection for its 
color, shape and lateness. 
Each Per doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 1.00 10.00 
Lord Kitchener (Renault 1916). Here is the ideal red Peony 
for landscape effects. It gives an abundance of blossoms 
almost from the first year that it is planted. The color 
is a brilliant cherry-red, one of the most brilliant found 
in Peonies. Early. 
Each Ter doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 1.50 15.00 
Madame Ducel (Mechin 1880). The color is a beautiful 
silvery mauve-rose; the flower is of the typical bomb 
type of perfect form. The variety that holds its lovely 
coloring and perfect form to the end. The guard petals 
are broad and prominent, surmounted by a chrysan¬ 
themum-like center of narrow, compact, incurved petals. 
Each Per doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 75 7.50 
Madame Emile Galle (Crousse 1881). Exquisite shade of 
shell-pink with touches of heliotrope and lavender. Large, 
compact, flat, rose type. Beautiful in bud. Late. Deli¬ 
ciously fragrant. 
Each Per doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 90 9.00 
Madame Gaudichau (Millet 1902). Exceptionally dark crim¬ 
son-garnet with blackish hues. Very large, globular 
flower with broad petals. The stalks and leaf stems are 
dark crimson. 
Each Per doz. 
8 to 12 eye clumps . 7.50 75.00 
Marie Crousse (Crousse 1892). The color is the most uni¬ 
form salmon-pink with life and freshness that is unsur¬ 
passed by any other Peony. Medium tall grower. Mid¬ 
season. 
8 to 12 eye clumps 
8 to 12 eye clumps 
Each Per doz. 
2.00 20.00 
