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HANSINA BRAND (Brand) 
A glistening flesh-pink with a salmon reflex shading toward the 
base of the petals. As the flowers fade they resemble a perfectly 
formed specimen of Solange. Comes into bloom late in the 
season and comes good every year while Solange often fails to 
produce perfect flowers. Hansina Brand was awarded the Farr 
Memorial Gold Medal for the best flower exhibited at the Na- 
tional Show held in connection with the Chicago Exposition in 
1933. In 1934 at the National Show held in St. Paul, Hansina 
Brand was again awarded the Farr Memorial Medal as the best 
flower in the show. Best flesh-pink in the National Show held at 
Rockford, Illinois, and also was judged the best double Peony in 
the Show. Best flesh-pink also at the Boston Show in 1947. With 
all these prizes, we find it dificult to supply the demand. See color 
page 5. A Brand Division $7.50 
HAZEL KINNEY (A. M. Brand) 
I can still remember this beautiful flower as it appeared on the plant 
the first time. The form was so superb and the color so pure; it 
impressed us at once as a flower of great promise, which it since 
has proved. A great show flower when displayed alongside the 
very best. True rose type. Color delicate clear hydrangea-pink. 
Medium height plant; clean, light green foliage; late midseason; a 
prolific bloomer. See color page 19. A Brand Division $1.50 
HEART’S IDOL (Neeley) 
This is a comparatively new Peony brought out by the late Dr. 
Neeley in 1936. The flower is an ivory-white with heavy rounded 
guard petals. The plant has stiff stems and comes into bloom mid- 
season. A Brand Division $2.50 
HENRY ST. CLAIR (Brand 1941) 
A tremendously free blooming red of very pleasing form and in 
color resembling Felix Crousse. It looks to us as though this is 
going to be a fine cut flower sort. Nice strong, healthy plant liter- 
ally covered with bloom. Medium long, straight stems with an even 
toned shade of red. In full bloom before Felix Crousse starts to 
open. This variety evidently does well in the South. 
A Brand Division $1.50 
(In the September 1947 Peony Bulletin, Mr. Bigger from Topeka, 
Kansas, wrote as follows: “Mr. Brand has a new red that very few 
people have heard about. It is a very good cut flower and has a very 
nice shade of red. It is Henry St. Clair. I have bloomed it for three 
seasons and it looks very good for a cut flower. It is not too large, 
but it is plenty large enough for a cut flower.) 
JEANNOT (Dessert) 
A large, high built, round flower of rose type with a cupped center. 
Color a delicate lavender-pink, with salmon-pink shadings at the 
base of the petals. A remarkably fine show flower with faint fra- 
grance. Also excellent as a garden flower. Very late. 
A Brand Division $2.00 
JEAN COOPERMAN (A. M. Brand) 
An early midseason even toned soft crimson-red coming into bloom 
a few days after Richard Carvel. The flower is of good size and 
pleasant fragrance. It is semi-rose in form, made up mostly of large 
petals nicely arranged. An annual and profuse bloomer. A fine 
show flower and, we believe, a coming red for the commercial cut 
flower trade. A Brand Division $3.00 
JOANNE FOREMAN (A. M. Brand) 
One of our newest introductions that we think more of the 
longer we have it. A large late flower with long narrow pointed 
petals. A very. brilliant bright deep pink. We feel sure when 
this variety is better known, it will be even more popular than 
our Martha Bulloch. A sure-to-please deep pink. 
A Brand Division $10.00 
JUBILEE (Pleas) 
A very large, flat, ivory-white. The petals are long, narrow, and 
loosely arranged, producing a very attractive feathery effect. Every- 
one familiar with Peonies knows that Jubilee is a fine flower. 
Its only defect is a weak stem, yet one can well afford to support 
such a beautiful flower. A Brand Division $1.00 
JUDGE BERRY (Brand) 
This is a fine delicate pink coming into bloom with that very early 
deep pink, Edulis Superba. Its attractive, large flat flowers are of 
excellent color and texture. Coming at the beginning of the Peony 
season, when most varieties are of small or medium size, this im- 
mense flower has a peculiar distinction, and will be wanted by every 
Peony buyer who wishes a really good early light pink. 
A Brand Division $1.50 
9.0 JUNE DAY 
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( Franklin) 
A pleasing shade of light pink with lavender shadings on edges of 
center petals. The flower is large, rose type, pleasing color, and 
delightfully fragrant. The plant is of medium height, free flower- 
ing, good stems and foliage, and comes into flower midseason. 
A striking show flower and a fine variety in the field. 
A Brand Division $1.50 
Kansas 
KANSAS (New) (Bigger) 
This is a new bright red that comes into bloom early in the Peony 
season. The plant has unusually strong stems and excellent foliage. 
The flower is full double with a few hidden stamens. It is a good 
show flower as well as a good cut flower. American Home Medal. 
A Brand Division $12.00 
An extract from an article appearing in the September and 
December Peony Bulletin of 1934, written by Wm. J. Lockhart of 
Des Moines, Iowa. 
HANSINA BRAND AGAIN WINS GRAND PRIZE 
“T came, I saw, I was conquered—thrilled. A mere bystander this 
time I stood on the fringe of the crowd that gathered about the 
twenty-one judges who were picking the 1934 Grand Prize Peony, 
and with almost as much inner emotion as when in 1932 I saw my 
own SOLANGE shifted to the center of the stage, I watched the 
elimination process. I saw them pick up those two wonderful blooms 
of La Lorraine, and oh, what a flower! I joined them in my keen 
admiration as sheer merit and appealing purity forced them to rec- 
ognize the marvelous beauty and glorious formation of the new and 
coming MRS. J. V. EDLUND. I admired with them many other 
startling blooms produced this year under such baffling weather con- 
ditions. But the queen could not be denied her glory for with all 
that grace and charm that last year gave her the crown at the 
Chicago World’s Fair, there she stood, a perfect flower, beautiful as 
a dream, strong and sturdy, perfectly formed and fresh as the morn- 
ing, and not a word of protest was heard when the ballots were 
counted and before the official announcement, the whispered word 
swept over the crcowd—HANSINA BRAND. 
“Mrs. A. 8S. GOWEN, president of the Minnesota Garden Flower 
Society, grower of the bloom, modestly received the shower of con- 
gratulations that she so worthily deserved, but no lessening of the 
praise due here was in the minds of the most thoughtful as they 
turned from congratulating the grower to give equal admiration and 
thanks to.the retiring and modest man who stood on the outside of 
the crowd, the originator of HANSINA BRAND, Mr. A. M. Brand, 
veteran breeder and grower of Faribault, Minnesota. 
“No wonder, then, that this magnificent flower has been twice 
crowned queen of the National Peony Show and that many of us 
have resolved that at any price this great flower shall bloom in our 
own gardens. 
“I congratulate you, Mrs. A. S. Gowen. I congratulate you, Mr. 
A. M. Brand. You are both worthy of the great honor.” 
