HARMEL PEONY CO., BERLIN, MD. 
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Confidence and Customers 
We are both pleased and grateful to be able to report 
that our business of 1936 again showed a substantial in¬ 
crease over that of any previous season. As a large pro¬ 
portion of this business came from old customers, we feel 
that they must have confidence in our ability to give them 
the quality and service they desire. Most sincerely, we 
will endeavor to merit their confidence by trying to fill 
all orders with true-to-name Peony roots of liberal size 
and best quality we are able to produce. 
“When better Peonies are originated we will 
grow them.” 
As the years have gone by, we have searched dili¬ 
gently for the best of the newer varieties, worthy to take 
their places among the best of the older varieties. So, 
our customers may have full confidence that the new va¬ 
rieties offered from year to year in our catalog will rep¬ 
resent the best of the all too numerous list of recent intro¬ 
ductions. Our desire is to keep our list of varieties within 
reasonable limits- and to include in it only those varieties 
which we confidently believe to be the most distinctive 
and beautiful in form and color, the strongest growers, 
and the most reliable bloomers, as well as the most gene¬ 
rally satisfactory and profitable cut-flower varieties in 
existence. 
May we serve you ? 
Sincerely, 
HARMEL PEONY COMPANY 
“THE LIBERAL SIZE AND FINE QUALITY OF OUR 
WELL BALANCED DIVISIONS WILL PLEASE YOU. 
