24 , 1913 . 
THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
371 
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i NEW PLANTS AND FLOWERS. j 
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P.EONY LA LORRAINE. 
This paeony will, we feel, eventually occupy 
a high position in gardens and may prove to 
be the forerunner of a quite new race. It 
is a tree paeony, but, as seen, is compara¬ 
tively dwarf and very bushy. Th<» parents 
are the new Paeonia lutea and the salmon- 
coloured variety of P. moutan named Princess 
Elizabeth. The flowers are large, about six 
inches across, very double and of a beautiful 
salmon-tinted buff shade. To all intents 
and purposes it is a yellow tree paeony, and 
we understand that it is quite hardy, and 
flowers later than P. moutan, opening in the 
ordinary way during the first week in June. 
Paeony La Lorraine was the most conspicuous 
new plant at the great Ghent International 
Exhibition, held from April 26 to May 4, and 
was raised and exhibited by Messrs. V. 
Lemoine and Sons, Nancy, France. F.C.C., 
R.H.S., May 13. Messrs. J. Piper and Son, 
Barnes and Bayswater. 
OBONTOGLOSSUM PHCEBE SPLENBENS. 
A very fine variety in which the individual 
flowers have been greatly glorified by the 
use of a large blotched 0. crispum as one 
parent. The flowers are white with a few 
dark maroon blotches. If this should pro¬ 
duce a large branching spike like the more 
typical forms of the hybrid it will be a most 
magnificent orchid. A.M., R.H.S., May 14. 
Messrs. J. and A. McBean, Cooksbridge. 
