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| Keywords: Peonies for pleasure (15773550864).jpg Happy Yes Coming from the Peony fields <br> THIS TREATISE on the Peony is issued to create a more <br> widely spread interest in tliis grand hardtj perennial by <br> FOREWORD <br> BY JOHN M GOOD <br> telling of its history its culture and of its superlatively <br> great beauty To trie average person ” that is to nine ty -nine out of every one hundred <br> flower lovers the word Peony is fixed in their memories simply as a Red Peony or a <br> White Peony or a Pink Peony while the actual fact is that the Peomj with venj small <br> outlau and attention on your part will reveal itself to iiou in such splendor that King <br> Solomon nor the Queen of Sheha ill all their grandeur could vie with the modern 1 eony <br> in their magnificence Indeed a plantation of choice Peonies is a veritable paradise of <br> loveliness and fragrance <br> Should this little booklet in a measure correct this false opinion that Peonies are a <br> subject that may be dismissed bij a passing thought it will then have accomplished its <br> mission and thus aid in the wider dissemination of this much neglected plant <br> The above was written for the first edition of 'Peonies for Pleasure just a few years <br> ago The results have fully justified our conclusions at that time for as evidence of the <br> more widehj spread interest' our sales at first doubled then trebled and last fall more <br> than quadrupled Vv hen we started in the peonu business our annual sales amounted to <br> twelve hundred roots simphj to color Red White and Pink; while now we have sold in <br> one season as many as fifty thousand Festiva Maxima twenty thousand Felix Crousse <br> twenty-five thousand Edulis Superba ten thousand Monsieur Jules Elie etc etc Surelvj <br> this is evidence of increased interest <br> In commenting on the statement I believe everyone is Peonu mad Mr A 1 <br> Saunders Secretary of the American Peony Society in Bulletin of Peony News No 2 says <br> It will be good news to the nurseryman that people are going Peomj mad It is high <br> time they did too; we are of course all Peony mad; at least all the -world thinks us so <br> because we have known something of the charm and beauty of the flower while others <br> have been blind to them What a datj would dawn for the growers if we should drift <br> into a Peony mania like the tulip mania that struck the Dutch in the seventeenth century <br> How would some of our friends feel I -wonder if some fine morning they should be offered <br> for a precious root of Le Cygne the inventory of goods once swapped in Holland for a single <br> Miss Ella V Baines Springfield Ohio <br> Page One 41910046 131358 64860 Page 1 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/41910046 1917 10 1080/00222939009460791 Ella V Baines Firm ; Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection NameFound Maxima NameConfirmed Maxima EOLID 11600420 NameBankID 5132771 NameFound Superba NameConfirmed SUPERBA NameBankID 5322983 Biodiversity Heritage Library Miss Ella V Baines the woman florist Springfield Ohio Peonies for pleasure Garden Stories Bulbs Plants Catalogs Flowers Peonies Plants Ornamental Seed industry and trade Seeds Trade catalogs U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 41910046 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/41910046 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom bulbs plants plants ornamental u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-01-29 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15773550864 2015-08-25 01 51 45 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Peonies for pleasure Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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