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Victory Chateau Thierry 
9.0 SARAH BERNHARDT (Lemoine) 
Another fine pink that always prevails in the show room. From 
our chart you will note it appeared every year in the large class. 
The color is a true apple-blossom-pink with each petal silver tipped. 
It is a late midseason variety with an agreeable fragrance. 
A Brand Division $1.00 
8.7 SILVIA SAUNDERS (Saunders) 
A beautiful little flower remindful of a semi-double wild prairie 
Rose. Blooms open out flat, slightly cupped. Around the edge is 
a double row of wide, rounded, rose colored petals which in turn 
surround a central cluster of short stamens with delicate light green 
carpels, tipped bright pink. Delicately beautiful—a Peony master¬ 
piece. A Brand Division $2.50 
9.7 SOLANGE (Lemoine) 
As to color this variety is hard to classify. The flower is made up 
of a suffusion of buff and pale salmon-pink shades. The flower is 
a perfect rose type. The coloring is beautiful and distinct but the 
flowers often fail to open. We recommend it for a large planting 
but not for a small home garden. The years when it comes good 
it fully deserves its rating. A Brand Division $1.00 
9.1 SOUVENIR DE LOUIS BIGOT (Dessert) 
Salmon-pink. Color a brilliant rose, slightly tinted carmine at the 
base, turning to a salmon-pink. Resembles Walter Faxon in color 
but stands up much better in the field. A real treasure and a va¬ 
riety that we recommend to anyone desiring a real good pink. 
A Brand Division $1.00 
8.9 STAR OF BEAUTY (Neeley) 
Here is a beautiful flower. A very robust plant with nice clean 
stems and foliage. Flowers of good size and fine form in a clear, 
clean pale pink fading lighter. Stamens show in the collar. We 
think this a distinct and very fine Peony. A Brand Division $3.00 
SUSAN WHITE (A. M. Brand! 
A pure early midseason white of very fine form and large size. 
Plant tall and luxuriant with dark green foliage. Individual blooms 
very large. Very long and narrow petals form a great compact 
dome-shaped center with large guards drooping gracefully away 
from it. Pure white, tinted heavily cream, with green showing at 
base of petals. Golden stamens add to the beauty of this fine white. 
A Brand Division $2.00 
T. C. CARPENTER (A. M. Brand) 
A new flower of ours which we are listing this year for the first 
time. A medium sized flower composed of large, nicely rounded 
petals neatly arranged in perfect circles, and possessing great sub¬ 
stance. The color is similar to that of the great Solange, a pure 
ivory with a yellowish tinge. A superbly balanced flower. From 
our long study of this flower, we believe it will prove one of the 
coming great Peonies. A Brand Division $10.00 
TENUIFOLIA FLORA PLENA 
The Fern-Leaf Peony 
The earliest double to bloom. In bloom with us around May 
20th. Very brilliant crimson. Finely cut foliage, so much like that 
of the Cosmos. Every season we receive numerous requests for 
the name of this flower. Tenuifolia should always be carefully 
mulched the first winter after planting. Very scarce. Few growers 
are able to list it. A Brand Division $3.00 
9.8 THERESE (Dessert) 
A very large, somewhat loosely built pink with a golden yellow 
glow in the center of the flower. The flowers are typical, even on 
one-year plants. The plant is of medium height with strong stems 
and comes into bloom early midseason. A supreme flower for ex¬ 
hibition purposes. A free bloomer with delicate fragrance. 
A Brand Division $1.00 
9.4 TOURANGELLE (Dessert) 
A delicate pearly white, suffused with shades of delicate salmon 
and La-France-rose. The flower is rose type and comes into bloom 
late in the season. The coloring is exquisite and we unhesitatingly 
pronounce it one of the most beautiful of all Peonies. The plant 
has a weak stem and needs support if used for garden decoration. 
A Brand Division $1.00 
8.3 VENUS (Kelway) 
An especially good pink that makes a wonderfully good cut flower. 
Both buds and foliage are clean. The flowers are of medium size, 
compact, and a pale hydrangea-pink in color. The plant is tall 
growing and free flowering. A Brand Division $ 1.00 
8.2 VICTOIRE DE LA MARNE (Dessert) 
One of the largest purplish red Peonies. The blooms are loose 
rose type, globular in form, and made up of broad petals of vel¬ 
vety red with a silvery reflex. A good garden flower and a fine 
show flower. The plant is of medium height and comes into bloom 
midseason. A Brand Division $1.00 
VICTORY CHATEAU THIERRY (A . M. Brand) 
A clear bright pink, gradually fading to a lighter pink. The flower 
is large, with immense, broad, evenly arranged, rounded petals of 
great substance. The plant is of medium height with very strong 
stems that hold the large, cup-shaped blossoms well erect. We con¬ 
sider this one of our very best originations but the plant comes into 
bloom so early that you seldom see the flower in the show room. 
A Brand Division $2.50 
9.3 WALTER FAXON .. . (Richardson) 
The most vivid of all pinks, the only “real pink” as someone has 
said. A remarkable flower, at its best in the show room. The flow¬ 
ers are of medium size, attractive in form, and mildly fragrant. 
In the fields it does not hold up as well as Souvenir de Louis Bigot 
but in the show room it tops them all. A Brand Division $1.00 
W. E. BLANCHETTE (A . M . Brand) 
The firm of Brand has always been noted for its fine red Peonies. 
Longfellow, Mary Brand, Lora Dexheimer, Winnifred Domme, 
Richard Carvel. David Harum, and Charles McKellip are excellent 
varieties. W. E. Blanchette is one of our new reds. It is of im¬ 
mense size, the largest red we know of. It is of a loose, semi¬ 
rose type with immense broad petals arranged in symmetrical form 
like the petals of a beautiful Rose. It is so large and of such beau¬ 
tiful form that it catches the eye instantly in the field. It develops 
nicely inside as a show flower and holds up well over a period of 
a number of days. We believe anyone who purchases this fine red 
will be more than pleased with it. A Brand Division $10.00 
Springfield, Mo., May 26, 1939. 
. E. Blanchette (purchased Fall, 1937) from 6 to 7 inches in 
diameter, attracts everyone’s attention. Mrs. D. D. 
We wish to call attention to the fact that in a National Peony Show there 
are three great classes around which all the other classes group themselves. 
On the schedule of the 1940 Rochester National Show these three classes were: 
CLASS 1—Calling for 100 varieties, All Doubles. 
CLASS 14—Calling for 10 or more Japanese Varieties. 
CLASS 19 Calling for 10 or more Single Varieties. 
BRAND PEONY FARMS WON 1ST IN ALL THREE OF THESE 
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