The Garden Magazine, September, 1923 
51 
One Flower—A Source of Infinite Delight 
A Garden of Them—Everpresent Inspiration! 
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my enthusiasm for The Peony I am at least Rosiere first prizes for the best twenty pinks and 
sustained by that vast majority of G. M. Readers whites in the show. Write me about the wonderful old 
'wfMJ' who do know Peonies. To them is left the task of favorites. 
uirS& spreading the gospel of More. 
For myself I have the job of 
winning new recruits. The thought 
wonderfully strange, is that there really 
are still some people who do not know 
Peonies. They may be familiar with 
the old-fashioned “Officinalis,” Grand¬ 
ma’s “Pineys.” But these dear old fav¬ 
orites are not comparable to such 
greater marvels as the prize winning 
Marie Lemoine, Pasteur, La Rosiere, 
and many others. Strange, that some 
of our most beautiful sorts are not 
Novelties. 
Stranger also that against strong 
competition, 1 took first prizes at the 
international peony shows at London 
and St. Paul for the best six peonies 
of any kind or color with Marie Le¬ 
moine and Eugenie Verdier both sixty 
year old favorites—Also with our 
venerable friends, Pasteur and La 
Henry S. Cooper, 
Peony Fan , 
Kenosha, 
Wisconsin 
Offers made in faith of their 
friendship building quality 
Cooper’s Unbeat¬ 
able Collection $10. 
Couronne D’Or. Late Yellowish..$0.75 
Delachei. Midseason, red.50 
Duehesse de Nemours. Yellowish. 
early.75 
Festiva Maxima. Early, white. . .75 
Felix Crousse. Midseason, red.75 
Edulis Superha. Dark pink, early .50 
Karl Rosenfield. Late red.3.00 
Mons. Charles Leveque. Midsea¬ 
son, flesh.75 
Madam Calot. Early, hydrangea- 
pink .75 
Mine, de Verneville. Early, white .75 
Pliilomele. Midseason, yellowish. .75 
Midnight. lied, dark, early. 3.00 
$13.00 
$ 10.00 
I am making it my pleasant private 
duty to make Peonies better known as 
a whole, to develop a keener apprecia¬ 
tion of the better sorts, to get others to 
look upon them in the same light as 1 
do. These thoughts “haunted” me for 
several years before they finally crys¬ 
tallized. Many of them are now pre¬ 
sented in “The Unvarnished Facts” edi¬ 
tion of “Tips and Pointers for Beginners 
with Peonies.” It is I hope with par¬ 
donable enthusiasm that I invite you to 
write for this most-talked-about Peony 
book. To avoid its falling into the hands 
of curiosity seekers, I am charging the 
nominal sum of 25c for it, with the un¬ 
derstanding that that amount will be re¬ 
bated with orders or refunded if the 
book is not found worth it. Of course, 
in accepting my offer alongside, 
the book comes free, as a matter of 
course. 
