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Prize- Winning Double Peonies 
This list contains only the very finest Peonies. No variety is included 
in this list unless it is officially rated at 80 or over, which is the official 
rating of the American Peony Society for “very good.”’ Most of them 
are rated 85 or better and 30 of them are rated 90 or better. The five 
very highest rated varieties are included. They are Le Cygne 9.9, Therese 
9.8, Kelway’s Glorious 9.8, Solange 9.7, and Mrs. A. M. Brand 9.6. 
This list is not only made up from a quality standpoint as to varieties, 
but with the idea of furnishing good strong, sound roots that will give 
satisfaction to the most critical; roots that are healthy and rugged, free 
from disease and of strong flowering size, three to six eyes to a plant. 
Although printer’s ink costs money, and these descriptions must be 
necessarily brief, I have tried to give some idea of the character of each 
variety, for each Peony included in these collections is there because it 
has an individual beauty that is not duplicated in any other variety. 
The flowering season is also given, as this will help in selecting varieties 
that will extend the season into the longest limit possible. 
Peonies are easily grown almost anywhere in ordinary garden soil, 
the principal thing to remember in planting being to see that the eyes 
are not more than an inch or two below the surface. Too deep planting 
is the most common cause of failure to flower. The varieties here listed 
will all flower profusely, increasing in beauty from year to year and may 
be left undistrubed for 20 years or more. 
FULL CULTURAL DIRECTIONS WILL ACCOMPANY ALL SHIPMENTS 
Adolphe Rousseau—8.5. Early mid-season. Very large, dark, 
rich lustrous red; so deep that it looks almost black from 
a distance. One of the finest landscape varieties in its 
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Alice Harding—9.5. Mid-season. Considered by Lemoine as 
his best introduction. Flowers of refined form and texture, 
with delicate coloring and sweet fragrance. Creamy white, 
with soft pink guard petals, which are flushed darker on 
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Alsace-Lorraine—8.8. Late mid-season. Pure waxy white, 
with a soft, creamy tone and a suggestion of brownish 
yellow at the base. One of the most exquisite of all Peonies. 
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Auguste Dessert—8.7. Mid-season. Intense velvety carmine, 
with a distinct silver border. A very handsome and distinct 
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Avalanche—8.7. Late mid-season. Winner of Grand Sweep- 
stakes North Dakota Peony Show, 1939. A magnificent, 
large, waxy, blush-white. Makes a wonderful garden effect 
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Baroness Schroeder—9.0. Late mid-season. A large double 
flesh-white to soft pink, with a delicate rose fragrance. The 
very high rating tells its own story..............-. «15 
Cherry Hill—8.6. A very early glistening brilliant red, that 
stands out among all other reds. Awarded a Silver Medal 
by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society......... 15 
Cornelia Shaylor—9.1. Late. FRAGRANT. An exquisite 
late soft rose. One of the best of its color, as the extremely 
high rating will indicate. Very tall strong stems...... 1.50 
David Harum—8.6. An indispensable mid-season red, with 
strong stems that hold the flowers erect. One of the best 
reds for landscape effect. My favorite.............. 1.00 
Elizabeth B. Browning—9.1. Late. Very fragrant, extra 
large, creamy white, with soft yellow glow in its depths. A 
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Enchantress—8.9. Very large, delightfully fragrant creamy- 
white, Very lated? 3:0 oc cess ots Gaerne 15 
Eugenie Verdier—8.6. A very lovely hydra ee One 
of the showiest of the pink toned varieties. Very large, 
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Festiva Maxima—9.3. FRAGRANT. Large, early pure milk- 
white, with a few crimson flecks at the centre. Perfect rose 
type. One of the besti; 5°50... eS ee eee 50 
Grandiflora—8.3. A large, late, fragrant, soft shell-pink, 
fading to rosy-white. The last Peony to bloom. Should be 
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James Boyd—8.9. One of the most delightfully fragrant of 
all Peonies. Rose form, flesh-pink, changing to nearly white, 
tinted buff-salmon at centre. Petals notched giving a frilled 
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Jeannot—9.2. One of the very finest. Large globular rose- 
type flower of delicate flesh-pink, softly tinted lavender, 
lighted salmon-pink at base of petals. Late. A superb land- 
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Jubilee—8.9. A wonderful white peony of largest size, often 
measuring 9 inches in diameter. One of the finest “show” 
varieties. ‘ Mid-Geasonie ets «5%. clees Assesses <icls «)elasanate ae 75 
Judge Berry—8.6. FRAGRANT. Indispensable because of its 
immense size, lovely uniform soft pink color and very early 
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