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From Bill Seidl's article "Close Encounters with Peonies and Peony People" published May 2007 at the Peony Addicts Yahoo Groups forum, and republished in December 2017 in a post at the Belgian web site, www.peonysociety.org called "Seidl's Life With Peonies".

Roger has his Martha W., premier seedparent for the i-cross, dug out from his neighbor’s (Carroll Spangler) Martha Washington variety asparagus patch. The spelled-out name was not allowed (duplicate naming ??) but the abbreviation was, which in itself violates the rules of nomenclature. But that’s OK. What’s done is done. I believe Roger crossed MW with other lactis for seedlings that would inherit its unique hybridizing traits. No go. Nevertheless, I think that avenue is worth driving down again.