La Lorraine (L,) 
This plant is equally the result of a cross between Paeonia lutea and a variety 
of Pseonia Moutan. Large well expanded flowers of a good substance, quite full, 
the petals, nearly imbricated, being of a soft sulphur yellow with a salmon 
tinge when opening, the colour becoming lighter and purer when fully 
expanded. 
It was awarded a work of art at the Paris horticultural Exhibition in 1909, 
a first class silver medal at the Ghent quinquennial Exhibition April 1913, 
and a First Class Certificate by the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society, May 14, 1913. (Coloured plate on application), 20/— each. 
L’Esperance (L.) 
A vigorous hybrid between Pseonia lutea and a variety of Pseonia Moutan, 
tall upright stems, good flower-stalks, single flowers 8 inches wide, with 8 to 
10 broad, round, fringed and waved petals, clear primrose yellow whith a buff 
shade, blotched carmine at their base. Numerous stamens with blood red fila¬ 
ments, pistil green, clothed by a bronze red tunic, scarlet stigmata. It is very 
hardy and flowers abundantly in June (F. C. C. R. H. S.), 60/— each. 
Louis Henry {L, Henry) 
This interesting variety was raised by the late Louis Henry from a cross 
between P. lutea and P. Moutan Queen Elizabeth. The cup-shaped flowers, of 
about 6 inches in breadth, are formed of 6 or more waved petals. The colour 
is a mixture of carmine, buff and pink, shaded salmon and coppery yellow, with 
purple markings at the base of the petals, 15/— each. 
Satin rouge (L.) 
Another hybrid raised between Pseonia lutea and a dark coloured sort of 
P. Moutan. This shrub is exceedingly vigorous, with a bright green healthy 
foliage. Each stem is carrying in June one or two large full double flowers, 
averaging 8 inches in breadth, with broad petals of a satiny appearance, and 
of a bright blood-red, passing to ah old red shade after some days : quite a new 
colour in Tree Paeonies, 30/— each. 
Souvenir de Maxime Cornu (L. Henry) 
A vigorous sort raised by L. Henry at the Paris Museum from P. lutea 
hybridised with P. Moutan Ville de Saint-Denis. It forms a bush 3 to 4 feet 
high. Every stem carries 2 or 3 full flowers, 7 to 8 inches in diameter, with crowded 
and wrinkled petals, of a deep yellow, heavily shaded orange salmon, fragrant, 
(A. M. R. H. S.) (Coloured plate on application), 10/— each. 
A NEW HYBRID OF P. -DELAVAYI VERA 
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Sang lorrain (L.) 
This striking novelty, raised from a cross of Pcenia Delavaji vera with one 
of the brightest varieties of P. Moutan, is exceedingly free, vigorous and 
hardy. The foliage is dark gi'eon ; the broad semi-double flowers, more than 
6 inches wide, have large round petals, deep mahogany I'ed, blotched black 
at their base with a crown of purple <in1hei*s, [lassing to gold yellow. They 
appear toward the middle of May and are very sweel-scented even at a 
distance. (Certificate of merit Paris 1935), 120/— each. 
