Albiflora x Emodi


White Innocence (1947) M. Our tallest plant, our last to bloom, and one of our loveliest. Eacn gracefully swaying stem bears several pure white single blooms with greenish centers. So tall that a mature plant may need staking. 219 blooms counted on one plant in 1960.


Varieties of Uncertain Parentage


Horizon (1943) E-M. An F2. Palest flesh single with huge gold centers. Tall plants.


Mermaid (1950) Large delicate flowers of palest lavender. Charming and quite unique.


Patriot (1943) Bright crimson goblets held high. Pure color. Tall vigorous plant,



HERBACEOUS PEONY SPECIES


I can now supply only these three herbaceous species:


lobata (officinalis lobata). The plants I offer under this name are not the one used in making our lobata hybrids. But lobata is well worth growing for itself, with typically brilliant vermilion flowers on dwarf plants. Early June bloom.


macrophylla. Flowering about May 12, this vies each year with P. tenuifolia for the honor of opening the peony season, Macrophylla has white goblet flowers about 3 inches wide and the largest of all peony leaves, highly glossy, with typical odor of box.


Mlokosewitschi, The only truly yellow herbaceous peony, und one of the most beautiful of hardy plants. Foliage is lustreless grey-green. Though not certain to succeed, it should be tried in every garden


HERBACEOUS HYBRID SEEDS

I am glad to send, gratis, mixed herbaceous hybrid seeds to those customers who may wish to raise them.


Two excellent books on peonies, after none had appeared for 30 years, are now available.


PEONIES OUTDOORS AND IN. by Arno & Irene Nehrling. (Hearthside Press, 118 East 28, N.Y. 16, $5.95.)


THE PEONIES, by John C. and Gertrude S. Wister. Published in 1962 by the American Horticultural Society. 1600 Bladensburg Rd., Washington 2, D.C, A wonderfully inclusive book. Hard, $5. Paper, $3.

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