THE BONNEWITZ PEONY GARDENS 
YELLOW KING (Japan) 
While this splendid variety has pink guards, yet it 
has the best yellow central petals of any variety and 
the yellow takes prominence over the pink. The 
growing buds should be covered with thick paper 
bags until they begin to expand rapidly, at which 
time the buds should be taken indoors arid the bags 
removed. A display of fifty or a hundred of these 
yellow blooms brings exclamations of surprise from 
all beholders. This is one variety which should be 
grown in quantity and all the flowers should be 
taken indoors for all their yellow beauty is lost in 
the open garden. 
1 eye division.$1.50 2 eye division.$2.00 
2 year plant. 5.00 
UoAietiei 
The majority of the space in that great 1940 Peony 
Show was filled with tables on which were displayed 
more magnificent double peonies than anyone ever saw 
in any one place and at one time in the history of the 
peony. I hope and believe that I have here the greatest 
list of the best peonies that has ever been published 
and so I am giving the greatest space in this catalogue 
to a description of those double varieties, many of 
which appeared in all their beauty and glory at that 
National Show so recently held in Rochester, Minnesota. 
A. B. C. NICHOLLS (Nicholls) 
A very large rose shape white bloom with an inner 
glow of orange. The petals are wide and it uniformly 
opens well, even on young plants. Strong and lasting 
substance. It is a flower of great refinement. Vigor¬ 
ous and thrifty grower of good habit. Strong stems. 
3 to 5 eye divisions only.$15.00 
A. B. FRANKLIN (Franklin) 
Mr. Franklin is more fortunate than several other 
peony growers who have given their names to peonies 
of their own origination. This one is a large, white 
variety, full double, opening a beautiful blush-pink 
and eventually changing to pure white. It was se¬ 
lected at the Rochester National Peony Show as the 
most distinguished exhibit for which it won the Boyd 
Memorial Prize and was, I believe, the very first of 
the eight varieties placed in the Court of Honor, a 
distinction which came to only seven other varieties 
this year. 
1 eye division.$4.00 2 eye division.$5.00 
3 to 5 eye division.$10.00 
ADOLPHE ROUSSEAU (Dessert & Mechin, 1890) 
8.5. 
Very dark red and of very good quality. An old, but 
very valuable peony with stiff stems for the land¬ 
scape. 
1 eye division.$ .50 2 eye division.... $ .75 
A. G. PERRY (Brand) 
Here is a variety which is entirely new in my garden. 
A rich old ivory, tinted delicate rose-pink, with zones 
of deeper pink radiating from the center of the 
flower to the edge of the petals. Early midseason, 
upright habit, medium tall, strong stems, and clean 
foliage. 
3 to 5 eye divisions only.$5.00 
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