Then, upon lilting, if it still lias some disease, 
repeat die operation. Should the plant be so 
hadhj diseased as to fail either to grow or bloom, 
then land it in the discard unless it is valuable 
enough to graft the eijes on clean roots. 
The Best Fiftij 
Do not think lor one moment that I would at¬ 
tempt to choose fiftij varieties lor ijou. To illus¬ 
trate: One daij in the Peoiuj field a ladij asked, 
pointing to a certain varietij, “What Peomj is that?” 
Alter being told she said, “That’s the ugliest 
flower I ever saw!’’ Just then a couple ol ijoung 
ladies came along and one ol diem seeing the 
varietij the ladij had called the “ugliest,’’ ran 
ahead ol her companion and exclaimed: “Oh! 
come, Manj, here is the prettiest flower I ever 
saw!” Turning to the woman I said: “And ijou 
would have me tell ijou which is the prettiest 
Peomj?” At another time alter conducting a 
couple ol women through our fields and selling 
them quite an order, I remembered that I had 
overlooked that charming varietij Asa Graij. Al- 
though worn out with our tramp through the fields 
we retraced our steps to the farthest corner of our 
fields, and while tlieij vere looking Asa Graij 
over theq spied several rows of Victoire Tricolore 
which we had decided were so worthless that we 
had marked them to dig and throw awaij. Tlieij 
left Asa Graij and fairlij waded across the rows of 
plants between, and each of them purchased, to 
our waij of thinking, a varietij not worth growing. 
No, it can’t be done; I would not be so pre- 
sumptious as to name the best fiftij. I would be 
as sillij as the fellow who claims that the best can 
be found in one hundred varieties. Read nuj 
descriptions of the different varieties and where I 
have fairlq poured out mij soul about them that 
will be the telltale of mij own opinion. 
List of Peonies According to Color 
To enable purchasers to cjuicklrj find irom the 
alphabetical list the colors desired, we have ar¬ 
ranged the following lists, including some of the 
principal varieties of the earhj, medium and late 
of each color: 
WHITE 
A valanclie 
Baroness Scliroeder 
lloule tie Xeige 
< oiironne d’Or 
Duchess tie Aemtmrs 
Festiva 
Festiva Maxima 
Florence \ iglitingale 
Frances E. Willard 
James Kelway 
Jubilee 
I>11IV 
I<ady Alexandra 
lilt Kosiere 
Le Cyjjne 
Madame tie Vatry 
Madame tie Vernevilie 
Madame Emile Lemoine 
Marie Lemoine 
Mireille 
Monsieur Dupont 
Queen Victoria 
Y ELLO W, CH A XGIX (i 
I'O AVHITIi 
Alim Sulfurea 
Hlanelie Cire 
( anari 
Caiididissimn 
Due tie Wellington 
Pltilomele 
I’rimevere 
Solfatare 
Sulfurea 
BLISH OH DELICATE FLESH 
Aehille 
A lsace-Lorraine 
Eugenie Verdier 
Floral Treasure 
Germaine Bigot 
Golden Harvest 
Kelway’s Glorious 
Kehvay’N Queen 
La Loraine 
La Tendresse 
li» Tulipe 
Loveliness 
Madame Calot 
LIGHT OR 
Albert Crousse 
Asa Gray 
Dorchester 
Edmond About 
El wood Pleas 
Etta 
Gismonde 
Gloire tie ( has. 
Com l>auIt 
Grandiflora 
Ilumei Garnea 
La France 
La Perle 
I/Ind ispensa hie 
DEEP PI 
Alexandre Dumas 
Auguste Villaume 
He ranker 
Claire Dubois 
Clementine Gillot 
Duke of Devonshire 
Edulis Superlm 
Elie Chevalier 
Fragrans 
Cignaten 
Ilumei 
I rm a 
Jenny Lind 
A grid a 
A trtisan guinea 
Auguste Lemonier 
Augustin d’Hour 
Berlioz 
De Candolle 
Edwin Forrest 
CRIMSON 
Adolphe Rousseau 
Dr. Hoisduval 
Eugene Higot 
Gloire tie Touraine 
(irover Cleveland 
Karl Rosenlieltl 
Madame Emile Galle 
Mdlle. Leonie Calot 
Marguerite Gerard 
Marie Jacquin 
Marie Stuart 
Midsummer Xighfs 
Dream 
Octavie Demay 
President Taft 
Solange 
'I'ou ran gel le 
I inliellata Rosea 
MEDIUM PIXK 
Madame Houlanger 
Madame tie Galliuu 
Madame Ducel 
Marie Crousse 
Marie d’Hour 
Martha Rullocli 
Modele tie Perfection 
Monsieur Jules Elie 
Princess Beatrice 
Sarah llernhardt 
Therese 
Tri. tie Expo. tie Lille 
Venus 
Welcome Guest 
Mv AX I) ROSE 
Lady Leonora Bramwell 
La Fayette 
Leviathan 
Linne 
Livingstone 
.Madame Forel 
Madame Geissler 
Madame Thouvenln 
Matliilde tie Roseneek 
Modeste Guerin 
Xe l*Ius Ultra 
Walter Faxon 
RED 
Felix Crousse 
Mareelial Vnlliant 
Monsieur Krelage 
Rachel (Terry) 
Slialiona 
'l'lie Gem 
OR DEEP RED 
L’Eeletante 
Madame Huetiuet 
Madame Gandioliau 
Meissonier 
>1 tms. Martin Cahu/ae 
liuhra Superha 
Size of Roots 
The size of Peomj roots varies as to varietvj, 
some sorts making strong roots with few eijes, while 
others make smaller roots with erjes in plentrj, and 
then again this rule will be reversed. Some va¬ 
rieties do not throw normal bloom after division 
inside of two rjears, then again other varieties will 
throw grand flowers first rjear from division. We 
have seen as fine flowers on Monsieur Jules Elie 
at one rjear from division as we have at thsee 
rjears, but not as manrj of them per plant. 
The newer varieties that are scarce, the smaller 
the roots sent regardless of price. 
Do not for one moment think that we are going 
to parj $5.00 for a small Peonrj root and then 
grow it a rjear or two, dig and sell to rjou for 
what we paid for it. Mr. Welsh puts it terselrj 
thus: “The man who cheats himself is about as 
bad as to cheat the other fellow, and that if we 
sold Peonies at anrj lower jrrice we would be 
cheating ourselves, and we know rjou do not 
wish us to do that. 
The Good & Reese Company, Springfield, Ohio 
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