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SPECIAL AND IMPORT PRICES FOR FALL OF 1902. 
OLD SPECIflEN PLANT OF TREE P/EONY.—From the English Flower Garden. 
Japanese Tree Paeonies. 
Last spring I was invited by one of my customers to see a collection of fifty Japanese Tree P:eonies in bloom that I bad 
imported ior him from Japan oik* year before, and if I could write a description that would give any idea of their beauty the 
Japanese growers would not be able to supply one-tenth of the demand tor plants. I don’t wonder that the Japs have a 
special holiday for visiting the peony gardens, but f do wonder that we Americans, who boast of our education and refine¬ 
ment, should be content with the poor and commonplace bedding plants usually seen in our gardens when such superb floral 
creations as Japanese tree I monies are to be had at a small cost. I have said this before, but the truth is so important to a 
lover ot a garden and is so little known or heeded that I must keep on repeating it. The first cost of a fine hardy plant like 
a tree preony is its only cost, and it increases in size and beauty year after year, so that a plant that may have only cost fiftv 
cents when purchased may become one in a few years that one would hesitate to accept twenty-five dollars for. Such a plant 
is the tree i'leonv. I have seen one that had sixty-six open flowers on it at one time, and read a description of another that 
piams win inooin tne nrst season planted and in the second season will produce from two to five He 
range m color from pure white to the darkest shade of purple, including all shades of scarlet, crime 
colors, some curiously striped or marked. The shades of pink are the softest and most lovely imaginal 
1 liese 1 ree 1 monies must not be confused with common herbaceous Pieonies, which are so po 
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nail over live hundred blooms m one season. Now, when it is considered that the blooms range from eight to twelve inches 
across and are of the richest and most lovely shades of coloring imaginable, it can be understood what a floral wonder a 
. apanese iree I teony may grow into. But one does not need to wait years for enjoyment of these flowers—a majority of the 
plants will bloom the first season planted^and in the second season will produce from two to five flowers each. The flowers 
crimson, pink, some in solid 
laginable. 
, _ , --- :-_ ■ — .—--L.uiwj <..<= so popular: instead of dying 
**' * H! ground every year they make a hard wooded growth and in time become quite large shrubs. 
smallest shrnh^m 1?”° A 1 A "?VJ. cst P lants available for the garden; it is quite hardy and flourishes under the simplest treatment. The 
m t , ! i ““'.aaWnElung manner, bearing blossoms the si/e of dinner plates, and the plant increases annually in size until one 
or other shnVm ta ! ii n of lmnj; flower, Hie Tree Ptsony is valuable for isolation on lawns and for borders and in nooks backed bv Conifers 
manure S'of.'coal^nofrer, “"AP'Si.?.® - AL^H 1 . rep ,'! y . th , ose , who it good treatment in the form of well-trenched soil and well-rotted 
y year add 
production 
ti from late 
. _ 0 -1 occasional ‘ nip/ 
June. / 
I have a set of Japanese water-color drawings of these Paeonies, which will be sent for examination on receipt of 
twenty-five cents to cover postage. These drawings must be returned, but if Peeonies are ordered the amount sent for postage 
will be allowed on the price of the Pseonies. 
PRICE—Fine Blooming Plants in 25 choice varieties.$1.00 each, $10.00 per dozen. 
Extra Selected Blooming Plants in 25 choice varieties. 1.50 “ 15.00 “ 
Iiee Pseonies are imported to order only. They do not always arrive 
stored and delivered early in the Spring. 
ve m 
time for Fall delivery, and in this event will be 
Named Varieties of Tree Pa:onies are grafted on a common single sort. Care must be taken to remove all 
suckers below the graft or they will choke the choice variety out in a few years. 
