Book  (1928)  Page(s) 60.  
 
A List of Sixty Choice Peonies of the More Expensive Varieties
White Varieties
E. B. Browning (Brand).  9.2.  White.  In the vote taken by the American Peony Society, E. B. Browning was one of the group of four flowers that stood ninth highest on the entire list, stamping it as one of the world’s greatest peonies.  To produce the best results, this variety must be grown in rich, well-drained soil.  This is a very late variety, coming into bloom with Marie Lemoine.  For this reason, we do not recommend it to our southern customers.  It has had some undeserved adverse criticism . If this variety has not been more than satisfactory to anyone who has planted it, it is because it was planted in soil not suitable to the variety, or it did not receive heavy cultivation.  It will do well in any heavy black soil.  The flowers of this variety are very large, and semi-rose type.  The buds are often as large as the expanded blooms of other fair-sized varieties.  The bud opens slowly, and as the petals unfold, a delicate pink coloring appears; the inner surface of the petals being washed with the most delicate pinkish canary.  The perfume of the flower is strong and sweet.  The variety is so late that it is not always seen in peony shows, but appeared in the prize-winning collection at Des Moines in 1924.  When we looked for an outstanding white for our Collection No. 3, we chose this variety.

Book  (1923)  Page(s) 28.  
 
A Few of the Newer American Varieties
Many of the recent and widely advertised peonies have come from the West. Mr. Brand, of Faribault, Minnesota, made the production of new varieties his great specialty. Out of thousands of seedlings, grown in a wholesale and most interesting way, he has selected and placed in commerce about fifty. [...]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Brand, 1907) : this much-advertised peony is beautiful but disappointing. The large and fragrant flower is white with delicate tints of pink and yellow. The stem, however, is so weak that the flowers fall over to the ground, their faces in the dirt. The mention of this characteristic is usually omitted in catalogue descriptions. The plant is not very floriferous and the roots increase slowly. No amount of poetic description can change these faults. This peony has been overrated and overadvertised.