PLANT AUTEN PEONIES 
Select our varieties with complete confidence. We are 
supremely interested in selling only the very finest 
kinds. Every order has my individual attention from the 
time it is received until the roots are shipped. Every root 
you receive has been fresh dug. We ship only high quality 
roots, standard 8 to 5 eye divisions, the best size to plant. 
Every variety listed is outstanding and worth while. 
THE AUTEN ORIGINATIONS 
The Auten Originations include many of the world’s 
finest. Among them we offer you: — 
UNFADING REDS in doubles, singles and Japanese type 
SINGLES and JAPANESE unsurpassed 
ROSE FRAGRANT doubles 
SURE BLOOMING late doubles for the warmer parts of 
the Peony belt 
STRONG STEMS and vigorous growth 
GLORIOUS HYBRIDS, extra early blooming 
When you plant an Auten Origination you are to enjoy 
some of the results of 35 years of careful work in the 
development of new varieties. Peonies do not come true 
from seed, and the 240 Auten Peonies were selected from 
many thousands grown from seed. It takes from nine to 
fifteen years to make a new variety ready for sale, and for 
one so chosen, several hundred mature plants, five years 
or more of age, may have been grown and discarded. 
TESTIMONIALS 
All unsolicited, al] received in 1953 
From Wisconsin. My peonies received from you have been very out- 
standing. 
From Illinois. Saw your peonies this year for the first time and they 
were most beautiful I ever saw. 
From Indiana. Everyone just raves about how beautiful the peonies 
are I bought from you. Every one is really wonderful. Thank you 
for such lovely plants. 
From Massachusetts. My Eloise bloomed beautifully. It was all you 
said it was. 
From Illinois. When it comes to the near yellows, Carolina Moon, I 
think, is the very finest. Philippe Rivoire and Tempest are the 
only rivals for “‘best red’. Last year I discovered an ideal trait in 
Tempest. It blooms in sprays, the lateral and terminal buds have 
the same characteristics. 
From Missouri. I have some of yours and all have done _ nicely. 
Mischief always puts on quite a show. 
From Massachusetts. Arcturus and Angelus have shown up nice, 
as have Tempest and Radiant Red. 
From Nebraska, Yukon bloomed this year although it was a very 
poor peony year here, and it turned very hot at the time it was 
coming out. I put sacks over two buds and they came out beautifully 
white and good form. They were lovely. 
From Illinois. I never cease to marvel at what you have done with 
peonies. 
From Pennsylvania. The peonies I got from you last fall are grow- 
ing well. 
From Virginia. Incidentally Moon of Nippon again demonstrated 
to me that it is one of the finest of all Japs. It is good in every 
way. Its bloom is long lasting and cupped, its stems of the best and 
it is tops. 
From Missouri. Fanchon, which I got from you a year or so ago 
bloomed beautifully this year. 
From Illinois. I made the trip to Holland, Mich. this spring to see 
the tulips and enjoyed it very much, but I think the peonies in 
your fields on June 3 were more beautiful. 
From Canada. Was very pleased with the Veritas I received last 
year. It had six or seven blooms on it and it took first at our 
horticultural show. 
Pion Maine: Yukon bloomed this year for the first time. Wonder- 
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From North Carolina. Peony roots arrived in fine shape. 
From New Hampshire. John Harvard was fine this, as usual, with 
twelve big blooms. Chaminade with fourteen blooms was stunning in 
afternoon shade against a background of green shrubbery. June Bril- 
liant, Tempest, Mischief, Nippon Brilliant, Nippon Beauty and 
Angelus much admired by garden visitors. 
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