• THE COURT OF HONOR IN THE PEONY REALM • 
the season I found, I believe, only seven plants which 
were damaged in any manner by the wind and weather. 
Its blooming season occupies a full week and it is, I 
believe, as near 100% as any peony in the world. It is 
an outstanding exhibition flower, a perfect landscape 
variety, and as displayed in a vase in the home it attracts 
the attention of all visitors. This wonderful TAMATE 
BOKU was exhibited by my friend, William Anderson, 
of White Beak Lake, Minnesota, and I am glad that this 
prize winner was not the only one which he exhibited 
in this, the greatest of all peony shows. Place your 
order with him for this most valuable variety. He 
certainly has vigorous, true to name stock. 
^ Dorothy J. 
The other one of the two thrill-giving varieties in 
the COURT OF HONOR was named DOROTHY J. 
I found it immediately on my entrance into the audi¬ 
torium and I could not leave it for it ws.s beautiful 
beyond any peony I had ever seen. I called all of my 
friends to come and see its beauty and it immediately 
had its own audience. The blooms were very large with 
the superb quality of the very best ALICE HARDINGS 
I ever saw. The color was a deep rich cream with a 
faint suggestion of pink upon petals which were of great 
substance. When I was told that this particular vase 
of flowers was brought to the show by Dorothy Jones, 
daughter of R. H. Jones of Peru, Indiana, and that 
neither Dorothy herself nor her father nor mother had 
ever exhibited at a National Peony Show I was surprised 
indeed. 
I was not long in finding Dorothy herself and I told 
her that her flowers would updoubtedly be winners in 
the show and I immediately expressed my faith in my 
judgment by giving her an order for a root of it at 
twenty-five dollars. 
When I later found that she had brought additional 
blooms of this variety we discussed the advisability of 
exhibiting them in two separate classes. Three blooms 
were exhibited in class number 106 for the Home 
Achievement Medal for “the most worthy new peony.” 
She also made an entry of three of the blooms in the 
seedling class and when I tell you that she won a silver 
medal on this variety as a seedling and the American 
Home Achievement Medal in its class you can see what 
