The Bonnewitz Peony Gardens : Van Wert, Ohio 
den from which she would sell a 3 to 5 eye division for 
five dollars. I immediately sent for it and when it 
arrived I found that the root at the time it was packed 
for shipment had five eyes, but the plant had been so 
carelessly divided that one of the five eyes with a piece 
of root no larger than my thumb had broken off from 
the big root which still held the four eyes. 
I immediately planted the large size division with 
four eyes and three feet away from it I very carefully 
planted the small one 'eye division. I knew this small 
division would need water very often because the root 
to which it was attached contained very little moisture to 
further its growth. Consequently every few days I gave 
the little root an abundance of water but paid no atten- 
whatever to the large size division for I believed that it 
needed no special attention. 
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Th E two plants sent their leaves above ground in 
the spring at about the same time and I immediately 
began watering the smaller one and continued my atten¬ 
tions to it until blooming time. It sent up a large, strong 
stem which in due season produced a very large beautiful 
pink flower, while the larger root sent up four ordinary 
stems and none of them produced a bloom. 
The variety that I had purchased was cream white 
and so I was immensely disappointed that I had not 
secured a JUBILEE for which I had been willing to pay 
ten dollars. I later found out that the pink bloom was 
named OPAL and I want to tell you that when the two 
plants, one starting with one eye and the other with 
four eyes, were divided when they were three years old, 
the smaller plant which started with one eye furnished 
me more and better divisions than the plant which had 
four eyes. Of course, if I had given the four eye division 
the same attention it would probably have equalled and 
might possibly have outstripped the smaller one in its 
growth. 
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I HAVE told you this story that you 
may know that a one eye division of any 
peony with a very small root, if given 
proper attention and water will make as 
