HERBACEOUS HYBRIDS 
These commence to bloom several weeks before the regular poenies. Here 
we have the real color breaks, the spectacular flowers and the greatest promise 
for the future. There are very few good doubles, only one or two Japs and some 
fine semi-doubles, but an immense number of grand singles mostly in shades of 
pink and red. The only yellow herbaceous peony is Mlokosewitschi and its off- 
spring Clare de Lune, a very beautiful creamy yellow. The nearest approach to 
blue is a very beautiful lavender, a cross between coriacea and albiflora. The 
finest white are from machophylla and are Chalice, Requiem and Archangel, the 
last reputedly the best. Green Ivory is tinted both green and yellow. Brilliantly 
colored pinks are Eros, Lovely Rose, Flame, Carina, Coralie and Ludovica semi- 
double. Reds are Golden Glow, Cherry Red, Illini Belle, very dark, Sophie, Bright 
Knight, Erebus. Double reds are Red Charm, Rose Marie.. Glowing pink doubles 
are Salmon Beauty, Garden Sentinel. Lustrous is one of the most spectacular of 
ail. Chocolate Soldier and Marta are very dark reds of exceptional beauty and 
are semi-double to double. Diana Parks, Robert W. Auten, Avelyn are new red 
doubles that are said to be extra good. These are only a few of the many that 
are now on the market.. 
TREE PEONIES 
These are the most spectacular of all flowering shrubs. They bloom very 
carly. They do well over'a great part of the country and should be tried far more 
than they are. Do not plant the doubles unless you are sure they do well. The 
yellow and red double hybrids are usually good. Some good ones are White: 
Gessekai, Gabisan, Haku-raku-ten- Renkaku. Yellow: Alice Harding, Chroma- 
tella, Daffodil, Golden Hind, Gold Sovereign, Silver Sails, silvery yellow, Damask, 
peach, Coronal, yellow edged pink. Pink: Dantemnon, Dai-kagura, Hana-kurabe, 
Iro-no-seki, Homei. Red: Nishiki-no-shitone, Chinese Dragon, Banquet, Satin 
Rouge. These are just samples. There are dozens of others maybe just as good. 
PEONIES FOR THE FUTURE 
We shall undoubtedly have in the near future full double yellows, maybe 
blues, blacks, of which Sable is a beginning, and many other remarkable shades 
of existing colors. The future lies mainly in the multiple hybrids which are just 
beginning to be produced. Meanwhile, here are a few new peonies which we 
shall look forward to having in our gardens in a few years. Ann Cousins, S. F. 
Wood and Doris Cooper have been mentioned before. 
Seedlings of Col. J. C. Nicholls, now grown by Gilbert H. Wild and Son: 
J.C. Nicholls, tall, full double white, Florence Ellis, soft pink double, George J. 
Nicholls, pink centered white double, Catherine Crain, also white with pink tints, 
Bettie Calvert, blush loose built double, Martha Sharp, rose pink double, and 
many others still under number including one very fine Jap. 
Seedlings of the late J. R. Mann and carried on by the late Julius van 
Steen, now in the gardens of a few fans around Chicago and Milwaukee: Ave 
Maria, blush semi-double, very fine, Miss America, white semi-double, also excel- 
lent, White Gold, a good Jap, Rose of Heaven, a rose pink double, Rose of Tralee, 
also rose pink and some others. 
The season before the death of Dr. F. G. Brethour he selected and named 
for his wife Alice May Brethour the peony he thought his best. There was only 
one plant. His daughter divided it and sent one root to the late John A. Bongers 
and kept one for herself. Her root seems to have disappeared but the Bongers 
root found its way into the Wild planting where it is growing and we hope it will 
prove all the good doctor thought it would be. 
Ada Priscilla, a fine near yellow originated by Mr. Walter Guille of Syosset, 
New York. It looked good to me. 
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