July, 1919 
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The Brand Peonies 
Originated by 0. F. Brand & Son 
America’s Foremost Hybridizers of the Peony 
Our Peony Gardens were established 
in 1R69 and now for fifty years we have 
been growing peonies on a large scale. 
Kindly permit us to call your attention 
to the fact that for the last eighteen 
years we have been actively engaged in 
originating by cross pollenization and 
selective breeding new varieties of 
Paconia. 
Many years are required to produce 
anil determine the worth of a new 
peony and we cannot emphasize too 
strongly the conservative methods which 
we are pursuing in this work. Every 
peony in our list has received the sanc¬ 
tion of the most discriminating con¬ 
noisseurs before we have believed it to 
be worthy of introduction. 
We consider ten years from the plant¬ 
ing of the seed to be the least period of 
time in which one should attempt to ar¬ 
rive at a certainty of the worth of any 
one seedling. During the years we have 
concentrated upon the peony we have 
bloomed some five hundred thousand 
seedlings and the standard of perfection 
which we have set for the “Brand" 
peonies is such that of all this half mil¬ 
lion only a mere handful, as it were, 
have been considered to be worthy of 
the name of “BRAND.” 
Our work of producing new seedlings 
is going constantly onward and we ex¬ 
pect to supplement our list from time to 
time with new creations bearing in¬ 
dividual characteristics which will entitle 
them to this distinction. 
We consider some of our peonies to 
be as fine as ever produced and the 
eagerness with which they are now be¬ 
ing sought by collectors the world over 
convinces us that we are not alone in 
our views. 
Charles McKellip, Chestine Gowdy, 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Frances 
Willard, Henry Avery, Judge Berry, 
Longfellow, Lora Dexheimer, Martha 
Bulloch, Mary Brand, Mrs. A. G. Rug- 
gles and Richard Carvel are a few of 
the good Brand Peonies. There are 
many more. 
Our beautiful new 1919 Catalogue will 
be issued just at the close of the bloom¬ 
ing season. Write for it. 
A. M . BRAND 
40 Years a Peony Grower 
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