Albiflora x officinalis Otto Froebel

Gaily-held flowers in fresh shades of pink, these were the nearest to "salmon pink" until the lobata hybrids.

(Rev. means the cross reversed.)

Honor and Mercy (both 1940) Bright rosy pink, these start early in June, just before the lobata hybrids.

Lotus Bloom (1943) Rev. Tall semi-double light pink.

Rosalba (1941) Rev. Pile creamy salmon pink.

Victoria Lincoln (1939) Rev. Clear pink; large, and when established may be quite double.

Officinalis x lobata. Four „little reds“ – E-M and M

These plants have a much better stature and habit than lobata itself and the flowers appoximate the brilliant color of lobata. Being hybrids between closely related forms, they are fertile.

Good Cheer (1942) Lovely light salmon vermilion.

Ladybird (1949) Bright tomato-red.

Little Dorrit (1949) Dwarf plants with small flowers of an unusual salmon, flared red.

Scarlet Tanager (1942) Tallest and latest of the group. True vermilion red.

Willmottiae x macrophylla

Silver Dawn (1949) I now have only the F2 of this plant, the original F-1 has been 15 years lost ; I will be grateful to hear if its existing in anyone's garden.

Albiflora x lobata - the great race of „lobata hybrids“

This group contains many beautiful pink and red tones so long desired in the Chinese peonies; salmon, coral, rose and deep cherry pinks, to clear bright crimsons, with no hint of purple and never a bad color in all the hundreds that have bloomed. I think this is the most brilliant and effective strain of herbaceous hybrids yet produced. . Their season is generally M. They set hardly any seed, but their F2's may be interesting.

About a dozen reds, and almost thirty pinks have been introduced, many of them so similar to one another that I have now tried to sort them roughly into color groups. The pinks especially, fade off as the flower ages ,

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