Plant Brand Divisions This Spring and Enjoy the Beautiful Flowers These Fine Roots 
Will Give You Yet this Season If You Plant Early 
Our list this spring is not a long one, but we are offering many of the 
best of the standard varieties, together with a few of the choicer ones. 
It is both difficult and expensive to get a good color illustration for 
Peonies. We have used many of these color’ plates again and again and 
we have found the varieties so illustrated are ordered while those that 
are just described remain unsold. Consequently, we deplete our stock 
of those illustrated in color rapidly. For this reason we are unable to 
offer this season such kinds as Hansina Brand, Blanche King, Le Cygne, 
and others. 
However, we have such fine kinds as Mrs. Bryce Fontaine, David 
Harum, Myrtle Gentry, Mrs. J. V. Edlund, R. A. Napier, Tourangelle, 
and many others to offer this spring. If we had colored illustrations of 
these varieties they would sell readily. If we use a colored picture, 
we want it to represent closely the variety we use it for. Sometimes a 
colored plate can be used for two or more varieties very nicely. For 
example, the colored illustration of Mary Brand might be used also for 
Karl Rosenfield, as they are much alike. But the one of Walter Faxon 
and Blanche King represent no other. Perhaps by another year, we shall 
be able to add to our colored list a number of new ones. 
Our roots are large and if planted early, they should give some bloom 
this same season. Then they will begin at once to make root growth 
and this growth will continue without interruption all during the sum- 
mer. By the spring of 1944, your plants, with good care, will be ready 
to produce real show flowers. 
Don’t be afraid to plant peony roots in the spring if they were dug 
in the fall and properly stored during the winter. We have had 
many years experience with both fall and spring planting and find 
them equally satisfactory. 

CHOICE DOUBLE VARIETIES 
8.9 A. G. PERRY (A. M. Brand) 
A rich old ivory, tinted delicate rose-pink, with zones of deeper 
pink radiating from the center of the flower to the edge of the 
petals. It comes into bloom early midseason. Plant has fine upright 
growth habit, medium tall, strong stems and clean foliage. One of 
7.6 EDULIS SUPERBA 
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLANTING PEONIES 
If you are ready to plant your Peonies when they arrive, wash off 
all packing material and drop the roots into water. Just before plant- 
ing, remove the labels so the wire will not cut the roots. Dig a hole 
2 feet in diameter and from 1 to 114 feet deep. Place the Peony root 
in the hole so the eyes on the root are 2 inches below the level of the 
ground. It may be necessary to place more soil back into the hole in 
order not to have the eyes more than 2 inches below the level of the 
ground. Be sure the soil is tramped down well so it will not settle 
any more. Hold the division erect in the center of the hole with one 
hand, with the other draw in the soil and pack it firmly about the 
root so that just the eyes show. Give the root a pail of water and then 
fill in the balance of the hole and firm the soil tightly. Just as soon 
as the Peony appears above the ground, begin to cultivate at least 
twice each week until August Ist. By keeping the soil loose during 
the first growing season, there should be no loss. 

(Lemon) 
This is the first good early deep pink. It sometimes opens for 
Decoration Day with us in Minnesota. The flowers are large, borne 
profusely on tall, strong stems. A loose, crown type flower, of a 
beautiful deep pink. One of the greatest of all cut flowers in its 
color and season. The flower deserves a much higher rating and 
should be planted because of its earliness and general good qualities. 
A Brand Division $1.00 
EVANGELINE NEWHALL (A. M. Brand) 
A very late large light pink. The petals are very long and the 
edges are both scalloped and ruffled. The flower has variations of 
deeper pink running throughout the petals. The variety is semi- 
rose in type. This is a comparatively new variety that we intro- 
duced in 1936. We consider it a very fine Peony. 
A Brand Division $2.50 
our newer Peonies that we know will please the most exacting. 
A Brand Division $3.50 
(In the December Peony Bulletin of 1936, G. W. Peyton of Rap- 
idan, Virginia, writes regarding 10 best Peonies that season, “Allur- 
ingly attired in robes of softest pink, shading to creamy white, 
A. G. Perry was easily one of the finest flowers to be found.” ) 
8.4 CHESTINE GOWDY (Brand) 
A striking variegated cone-shaped pink. The broad outer petals 
are silvery pink. These enclose a zone of fine, irregularly shaped 
closely set petals, of deep rich cream, which in turn surround a 
prominent cone of broad pink petals, splashed and tipped with 
crimson. This is a late variety with delicate fragrance. 
A Brand Division $1.00 
8.4 FELIX CROUSSE (Crousse) 
A deep rose-red showing no stamens. Consists of a central bomb 
of incurved petals surrounded by broad, prominent guard petals. 
A good all-purpose late red, the same type as the early red, 
Richard Carvel. A Brand Division $1.00 
8.3 COMMANDER (A. M. Brand) 
Color a true self solferino-red. An extra large, high built flower; 9.3 FESTIVA MAXIMA 
very compact. A cone-shaped rose type Peony. Although late, it 
blooms consistently, which cannot be said of most late varieties. 
After every other red is gone you can still go out and bring in 
excellent flowers of this variety. A real acquisition to our reds. 
A Brand Division $2.00 92 FLORENCE MacBETH (Sass) 
An immense rose type flower of a soft La-France-pink. The petals 
are broad, of much substance, and have a crinkled effect that is 
very distinct and beautiful. The plant is a strong, vigorous grower 
with strong stems. A very fine pink. A Brand Division $2.50 
GOLDEN BRACELET (A. M. Brand) 
A very high built creamy white with a distinct collar of yellow 
(Miellez) 
An early true rose-type white with broad guard petals surrounding 
a compact inner mass of rich white petals flecked crimson. This is 
a good early garden variety to use for cut flowers, but as a rule, 
comes too early for a show flower. A Brand Division $1.00 
8.4 DAVID HARUM (Brand) 
A soft Tyrian rose without stamens. The flowers are very large with 
prominent guard petals surrounding a great ball of closely packed 
petals of the same shade. An upright growing plant with very 
strong stems that hold their large blooms erect. This is an excel- 
lent garden variety and also a good show flower. Another Peony of 
beautiful form. A Brand Division $1.00 petals encircling the center. General color effect yellow and a real 
addition to the small list in this color class. This variety was dis- 
8.1 DUCHESSE DE NEMOURS (Calot) played in our show room two years ago for the first time and was 
greatly admired. One of our visitors thought this name appropriate 
as there is a distinct band of creamy yellow petals through the 
flower that makes this variety unusually attractive. 
A Brand Division $5.00 
Creamy white. An early almost pure white with shadings of green 
at the base of the petals. A good flower. Plant medium tall; stems 
strong and erect; excellent foliage. Dependable and profuse 
bloomer. A Brand Division $1.00 
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