THE 1951 SHOWS 
The 47th Annual Exhibition was held in Cleveland, Ohio, June 18-19 at the 
Higbee Company’s Department Store. Flowers, good. Attendance, fair. Best 
Flower in the Show: Red Charm. Best doubles: White: Yukon; blush: Dorothy 
J.; light pink: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt; medium pink: Martha Bulloch ; dark 
pink: Blanche King; red: Ruth Elizabeth; semi-double; Elizabeth Huntington; 
white Jap: Lotus Queen; pink Jap: Rashoomon; red Jap: Dignity; white single: 
Pico; pink single: Sea Shell; red single: Imperial Red; single hybrid: Golden 
Glow; double hybrid: Red Charm. Best double albiflora: Dorothy J. (B. H. Farr 
Medal). Best herbaceous hybrid: Red Charm (A. P. 8S. Bronze Medal). Best 
and Most Distinctive new variety shown: Jacob Styer (American Home Achieve- 
ment Medal). 
First Class Certificates were awarded by the Seedling Committee to the fol-- 
lowing named varieties: Amberglow, white, tinted amber, double; Mother’s: 
Choice, white with pink overlay, double; Virginia Dare, white single, and Angelo 
Cobb Freeborn, salmon pink herbaceous hybrid double. 
The Regional Show of the Second District was held in Whitner’s Department 
Store, Reading, Pennsylvania, June 14 and was staged almost entirely by the 
Sussex County Peony Society of New Jersey. Flowers, excellent. Attendance, 
excellent. Best doubles: white or blush: Mrs. J. V. Edlund; pink: Martha Bul- 
loch; red: Grover Cleveland; Japanese: Lotus Queen; single: Sea Shell; semi- 
double: Ave Maria; herbaceous hybrid: Red Charm; Amateur specimen: Harry 
F. Little; Grand Champion: Martha Bulloch; Popularity Queen: Moonstone. 
The 32nd Annual Peony Show of the Minnesota Peony and Iris Society was 
staged in the lobby of the Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 
June 25-26. Flowers, very fine. Attendance, excellent. Best doubles: white: 
Alesia; blush: Gardenia; light pink: Doris Cooper; dark pink: President F. D. 
Roosevelt; red: Bonanza; Japanese: Isani Gidui; single: Pico; herbaceous hy- 
brid; Nathalie; Grand Champion: Doris Cooper; best ‘Five’: Doris Cooper, Le 
Cygne, Mattie Lafuze, Nick Shaylor, Victory. 
THE OUTSTANDING FLOWERS OF THE YEAR 
In my opinion, the most beautiful flower of the year was a bloom of Isani 
Gidui seen in a neighbor’s garden; the most beautiful double, Doris Cooper, as 
shown in Minneapolis, and the most beautiful single, Pico, seen everywhere; 
Aerie, the best semi-double. Red Charm was the finest herbaceous hybrid. 
Other noteworthy flowers were: Doubles: white: Elsa Sass, Frankie Curtis, 
Kelway’s Glorious, “White” Pink o’Dawn (real name unknown) ; blush: Florence 
Nicholls, La Lorraine, Ramona Lins; pink, Dolorodell, Judge Snook, Mandaleen, 
Mrs. Livingston Farrand; red: King Midas; semi-double; Miss America, Mildred 
May, Red Goddess; Japanese, white: Christine, Gold Standard, Moon of Nippon; 
pink: Doreen, Gayborder June, Golden Sun, Sky Pilot, Westerner; red: Sword 
Dance: single: white: Dunlora, Krinkled White, Rebecca Wright, White Wings; 
pink: Dawn Pink, Josette; red: Arcturus, Man o’War, President Lincoln; herba- 
ceous hybrids: Cardinal’s Robe, Chocolate Soldier, Grace Root, Eros, Flame, Lov- 
ely Rose, Ludovica, Salmon Glow, Diana Parks, Skylark, Sophie. 
The only show in which tree peonies were seen was Cleveland and they were 
not in good condition. 
It is regretted that no reports from other shows had been received when 
this was sent to the publishers, July 5. 
No edition of Peyton’s Peony Pilgrimage will be issued this year. 
GEORGE W. PEYTON 
Windy Hill Gardens, Box No. 1, Rapidan, Virginia 
