• THE COURT OF HONOR IN THE PEONY REALM • 
and very beautiful white variety, A. B. FRANKLIN, 
originated by Mr. Franklin himself and this exhibit won 
for him the Boyd Memorial Prize as “the most dis¬ 
tinguished exhibit” in the whole show. 
Victoire De La Marne 
He also won the honor of having “the best red double 
peony” in the show with the very largest red peony 
I have ever seen. The variety was VICTOIRE DE LA 
MARNE which personally I had never regarded as a 
prize winning variety, but the bloom shown by Mr. 
Fischer was of enormous size, good shape, splendid form 
and with a better color than I had ever seen in it before. 
I will pay far more attention to this variety in the future 
for the peony world certainly does need a better show¬ 
ing of good red varieties. I hope to meet Mr. Fischer 
in our next National Show. 
★ Mrs. J. V. Edlund 
The peony, MRS. J. V. EDLUND, white, originated 
by Mr. Edlund, was awarded the distinction of being 
“the best peony exhibited in this show by any amateur.” 
MRS. EDLUND is in the class of the very best white 
varieties and there are points of similiarity between 
it and ELSA SASS and JUDGE SNOOK which are all 
three in my list of the world’s best varieties. I hope 
next year to see a row of each of these three varieties 
all growing in my garden side by side so that I may 
form my own judgment of which of them is really the 
best. The fortunate owner of this winning variety was 
Mr. Carpenter whom I hope to meet at the next peony 
show in Syracuse, New York. 
It would have been a pleasure to meet every exhibitor 
in this show, but I am quite sure that not one member 
of the society was fortunate enough to meet all of them. 
Nick Shay lor 
L. W. Lindgren had a right to feel very proud when 
he saw the variety NICK SHAYLOR which he had 
grown in his own garden placed in the COURT OF 
HONOR as “the best pink variety exhibited in the show”. 
I was very glad myself to see this distinction come to this 
particular variety which is a very, very light pink which 
almost fades into a cream white. In a recent National 
Peony Show it nearly reached the pinnacle of fame 
