A Peony Manual; Giving Up-To-Date Information Regarding These Beautiful Flowers, Showing: How to Raise from Seed, How to Increase By Divisions, How to Plant and Cultivate (Classic Reprint)

Two Co Bles Received MAN It 1907 ,C opyright Entry CL1SS A XXC, No. 77fO .CO fV B. .$. I)arri$on $INTRODUCTION The former edition of this manual was the first issued in any language. This was so cordially received that the 2,000 were soon exhausted. Some of the peony growers decided to issue another edition. Most of the matter is new. Many things have come up the past few )ears that need attention. This department of floriculture has made tremendous strides and we need to keep step with the progress. An interest unknown before has been awakened. New varieties are being produced, and hundreds are engaged in raising seedlings. The demand for these flowers is unprecedented. This work embodies much close observation and careful research, which we trust will be of benefit to the reader. What is needed is information. Thousands of people know little or nothing about the peony. Thousands have never seen one. The great west has passed the pioneer stage and is now thinking more of home adornment. They wish to know what to plant. One man in Minneapolis desired to improve his fine grounds. Incidentally he borrowed a manual, read it with interest, and sent for $150 worth, and now he is a champion of this queenly flower. A nother gentleman read it and sent an order for $130 worth. Many a woman, with soul hungry for the beautiful, read it, and sent an order for some of the rarest. We are sure that that edition of 2,000 has awakened an interest which is spreading. The peony society, sometime in the future, contemplates issuing a work on the subject; but something is needed now, and so we give this, which we are sure will meet with cordial reception. What is needed is to push information into the great west, where these flowers are so much needed, and where they thrive and bloom so successfully. We have yet only touched the borders of the great work to be accomplished. :J m
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