Battle Creek, Mich. 
TREE PEONIES 
today. We like to draw your attention especially to the yellow varieties which still 
belong to the rarest of all plants. 
SIZE OF PLANTS AND TIME OF SHIPPING—At prices quoted we supply 
strong two- to three-year-old plants. Most tree peonies are carried in 5-in. pots so 
that they can be shipped at any time. Tree Peonies bloom when very young, quite 
often on one-year plants. They grow less rapidly than the Chinese Peony. 
ARCHDUC LUDOVICO—Enormous wide flower, double, flesh-pink, turning 
soft lilac ..—..... $5.00 
ATHLETE—Immense double flower of fine glazed mauve, shaded rose; vigor¬ 
ous and prolific grower __ $5.00 
BARONNE D’ALES—Very lagre imbricated bloom; vivid salomy-pink; deeper 
in center ______ $5.00 
CAROLINA D’lTALIE—Wide flower; silvery-flesh with salmon reflex; prolific 
and beautiful ______ $5.00 
CHROMATELLA—This striking novelty is a sport from the beautiful variety 
11 Souvenir de Maxime Cornu. ” Color: a pure sulphur yellow without any 
shade of salmon or buff. The flower is full double —..$35.00 
COLONEL MALCOLM—(Reine des Beautes). Fringed petals, light purple 
and violet with silvery reflex ...... $5.00 
COMTESSE DE TUDER—Lively salmon, petals tipped satiny-white; fine full 
double flower; free bloomer .... $5.00 
FRAGRANS MAXIMA PLENA—Double, Salmon flesh-pink, bronzed foliage. 
Very beautiful ...... $5.00 
GEORGES PAUL—(Souv. d’ Adrien Seneclauze). Wide amaranth and violet 
bloom; very hardy ...... $5.00 
JULES PIRLOT—Large blobular flower, perfect in form; satiny-pink, flushed 
carmine .._...-.-._. $5.00 
LACTEA—Pure white, blotched carmine ... $5.00 
LA LORRAINE—A cross between P. Lutea and a variety of P. Moutan. 
Large well expanded full double flowers of good substance; the petals nearly 
imbracated, being of a soft sulphur yellow with a salmon tinge when opening, 
becoming lighter and purer when fully expanded. (Awarded a work of Art at 
at the Paris Horticultural Exhibition in 1909, awarded first class silver medal 
at the Ghent Quiquennial Exhibition 1913, first class certificate from the 
Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, May 14,1913) .$35.00 
MME DE VATRY—Very large globular bloom; satiny-pink, shaded lilac; 
vigorous grower ....... $5.00 
REINE DES VIOLETTES—Fine dark lively violet . $5.00 
REINE ELISABETH—Flower perfect in shape, vivid salmon-pink. A bril¬ 
liant color; considered amongst the finest of all double Tree Peonies . $5.00 
SOUVENIR DE DUCHER—Large, globular bloom; bright reddish violet with 
silvery reflex ..... $5.00 
SOUVENIR DE MAXIME CORNU—A vigorous variety, raised by L. Henry 
at the Paris Museum from P. Lutea hybridized with P. Moutan Ville de Saint- 
Denis. It forms a bush 3-4 feet high with abundant and healthy foliage, every 
stem carries 2 or 3 full flowers, 8 inches or more across, with crowned and 
wrinkled petals, of a deep yellow, heavily shaded orange, fragrant. 
(A.M.R.H.S.) ......$18.00 
TRIUMPHE DE VANDERMAELEN—Clear rosy-purple brighter in center; 
very floriferous ..-.-.—..— $5.00 
SURPRISE—A tall vigouous variety, flowers carried by strong stalks, very 
large and full; the color is a combination of straw yellow, pale salmon and 
rosy-purple, of a very novel character. Fragrant .$35.00 
HARDINESS AND CARE OF THE TREE PEONY 
Tree Peonies are perfectly hardy wherever the Lilac thrives. Unprotected 
they often have to stand temperatures of 15 to 25 degrees below zero. It is advisable 
however to avoid windswept loctaions and to protect the early bloom buds in case 
of late spring frosts. 
Mulching is advisable the first winter after transplanting. Apply mulch of 
light material and after the ground is frozen solid. 
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