gate no peony whieli does not serve a useful 
purpose better than other varieties of similar 
character. 
This new catalogue will be different. It will 
tell you the varieties I consider of most service 
to the world, whether they are new or old. 
The most useful peonies are those which we 
are proud to see growing in our gardens and 
which carry themselves in such perfect condition 
even in unfavorable weather, that we do not 
need to hide them in a cutting garden. The list 
of this kind of varieties is very small and when 
we findi^one of them which is graceful enough for 
interior decoration and also beautiful enough to 
win prizes in National Peony Shows, we have 
found so perfect a peony that it will never be 
superseded. 
I am taking particular delight in searching 
out peonies of this kind, from the many hun¬ 
dred that have less merit. 
My thirty years experience in Peony Gar¬ 
dens and my twenty years experience in National 
Peony Shows, have given me confidence in my 
own judgment of the value of peonies, after hav¬ 
ing seen them both in my own garden and on 
the exhibition table. 
Our Peony season in Van Wert this year has 
covered a period of over three weeks and the 
weather has been so wet that few farmers have 
been able to plow their corn and yet, here are 
three varieties, each of which has given us 
twelve days beauty in th(‘ garden, not-with- 
standing the weather. 
AN ATTRACTIVE OFFER: 
Three Fine Landscape Peonies. 
PHILIPPE IHVOIRE, the best red peony 
