PEONIES — Most Glorious of Early Summer Blooms 
8.7 AVALANCHE (Crousse, 1886) —Just as the good white peonies 
are going, this lovely variety begins to unfold its petals. Pure snow- 
white blossoms of perfect shape with oftentimes delicate pencilings 
of carmine on the edge of the central petals. Fragrant. The variety 
grows medium tall, strong, upright and produces blooms freely. 
In our opinion Albatre and Avalanche are identically the same. 
9. BARONESS SCHROEDER (Kelway 1889) —Very large, globular 
rose type. Flesh-white fading to milk-white. Fragrant. Tall and strong. 
Very free. Midseason. 
7.6 EDULIS SUPERBA (Lemon, 1 824)— Deep rose-pink with an occa¬ 
sional crimson marking. No collection can be without this variety, 
as it is the earliest of its color to bloom. Fragrant. Even in our lati¬ 
tude it often blooms on Decoration Day. 
9.3 FESTIVA MAXIMA (Miellez, 1851)— Very large, globular, 
rose type. Very broad petals. Pure white center usually flecked 
crimson. Outer petals sometimes pale lilac-white on first opening. 
Very tall, strong and vigorous. Early. Most popular white for cut 
flowers. 
8.8 KARL ROSENFIELD (Rosenfield, 1908) —Very tall, rich, vel¬ 
vety cirmson. Glorious variety. Mid-season bloomer. No crimson 
peony equals it. 
8.1 L’ETINCELANTE (Dessert, 1905) —A single peony. Brilliant 
carmine with silvery margin. Very large, cup shaped flowers. 
niJI One of the most beautiful and most 
I IlLwi^ lasting of all the Hardy Perennials 
BRIDESMAID —White, with large crimson center. 
COMMANDER— F iery crimson-red with darker eye. One of the most 
striking new sorts. 
FRAU G. VON LASSBURG —Immense, pure white pinacles. 
MRS. CHARLES DORR —A beautiful shade of lavender. 
MISS LINGARD —White with faint lilac eye. Very free flowering. Beau¬ 
tiful for massing. 
RHEINLANDER —New and of great beauty. Flowers and truss of unusual 
size, of a rare shade of salmon-pink and intensified by a distinct claret-red 
eye. 
RICHARD WALLACE— White with large crimson eye. 
RIJNSTROOM— A lively shade of rose-pink, very large. 
SIR EDWIN LANDSEER —Bright crimson. 
And Many Other Approved Varieties 
Phlox Subulata 
The figures oppo¬ 
site description of 
Peonies are rat¬ 
ings given by 
American Peony 
Society .based 
upon vigor, size 
of bloom, etc 
9.9 LE CYGNE (The Swan) (Lemoine, 1907) —No name could better 
describe this variety,- the grandest white flower you ever beheld; foliage 
of a darker green than most other peonies,- globular, compact type of 
bloom with a true June rose fragrance. No peony scored higher than 
Le Cygne. 
9.2 MONSIEUR JULES ELIE (Crousse, 1888) —Wonderfully glossy lilac- 
pink, shading to deeper rose at the base, the entire flower being overlaid 
with a sheen of silver. The flowers measure over 9 inches across and 
have the appearance of a giant chrysanthemum. One of the highest scoring 
peonies; bomb type,- early to midseason. A peony collection cannot be 
without this variety. 
8.7 PRESIDENT TAFT —Delicate hydrangea-pink enveloped in a halo of 
very pure white. One of the largest and finest peonies ever introduced. 
Blooms midseason. 
9.0 SARAH BERNHARDT (Lemoine, 1906) —This sterling variety well 
deserved the high honors bestowed upon it at the National Peony Show 
at Fort Wayne, Ind., June 15, 1926; it took first rpize for the best dark 
pink. We are fortunate enough to possess a very large stock of this 
exquisite peony. The flower is the ideal of refinement in peonies, which, 
aided by its beautiful color, apple blossom pink with each petal silver 
tipped, makes it about as perfect a peony as coud be imagined. It possesses 
an agreeable fragrance,- blooms late. Sarah Bernhardt should be in every 
collectoin. 
An early Spring-flowering type with 
pretty moss-like evergreen foliage 
which during the blooming season is 
completely hidden under the masses 
of bloom. An excellent plant for the 
border, rockery, carpeting ground or 
covering graves. 
VAR. ALBA— White. 
VAR. ROSEA —Bright rose. 
9.8 THERESE (Dessert, 1904) —Second highest scoring peony (Le Cygne 
9.9). Among the world’s finest varieties. Therese probably received more 
comment in our fields than any other peony. The flower is of an enormous 
size and true rose type with delicate fragrance. Color rich satiny pink 
with lighter center. The plant is of vigorous growth, very free blooming 
and the foliage is a rich green. 
Karl Rosenfield 
Sarah Bernhardt 
Baroness Schroeder 
Monsieur Jules Elie 
Only a few of the 2,000 varieties of 
peonies are worth while. Greening’s have proved these. 
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