(Jan 1917)  Page(s) 84.  Includes photo(s).
 
Adolphe Rousseau. One of the darkest peonies. Beautiful shade of garnet, very glossy petals which reflect light. Note colour plate. Dessert & Mechin, 1890. Semi-double. Garnet. Very large. Early. Very tall, vigorous grower, long strong stem, dark foliage, veins in leaves red. Free bloomer. Garden.

(Jan 1917)  Page(s) 84.  
 
Agnes Mary Kelway. Light pink guards surround a thick cream white collar of narrow petaloids. Crown same colour as guards. Kelway. Crown. Light pink. Large. Early midseason. Fragrant. Tall, vigorous, erect, Free bloomer. Garden and cutting.

(Jan 1917)  Page(s) 84.  
 
Albert Crousse. Large full blooms of light salmon pink. Petals small and closely packed. Crousse, 1893. Bomb. Light pink. Very large. Late. Fragrant. Tall, erect, free bloomer. Garden and cutting.

(1917)  Page(s) 29-30.  
 
P. albiflora (white flowered)—Improved type — (see frontispiece and numerous other colour plates and half-tones), with red, pink, white, mauve or yellowish flowers of several forms, single, semi-double, crown, bomb, rose, etc., and many of them fragrant. This is the most important and interesting species of the herbaceous group and is the principal one grown to-day. It is sometimes called P. sinensis or Chinese peony.
The primitive type of P. albiflora—from its name, presumably white—is a native of a vast range of territory from the central regions of Siberia to central China. Its early history is entirely in China and Japan: it was not known in Europe prior to 1656.
The improved type was obtained:
(a) By importation into Europe from Siberia or China about 1850.
(b) By crossing P. albiflora (either the imported primitive type or the imported improved type) and certain little-known species, e.g., P. peregrina {foreign), P. arietina (ram's horn fruited), etc.
(c) By crossing P. albiflora (either the imported primitive type or the imported improved type) and P. officinalis. This crossing, done chiefly since 1850, is probably the origin of most of the beautiful double kinds of to-day with their varied forms and exquisite colourings.
 

(Jan 1917)  Page(s) 84.  
 
Alexandre Dumas. Guards and crown bright pink. Collar of deep cream or chamois colour. Guerin, 1862. Crown. Bright pink. Large and full. Midseason. Fragrant. Medium height, free and reliable bloomer. Cutting.

(Jan 1917)  Page(s) 84.  
 
Alfred de Musset. Well-formed flower of flesh pink and salmon. One of the pinks without a hint of mauve. Crousse, 1885. Rose. Flesh pink. Large. Midseason. Medium height, rather spreading habit. Garden and cutting.

(Jan 1917)  Page(s) 84.  Includes photo(s).
 
Alice de Julvecourt (Syn. Triumphans; Gaudavensis). Well-built full flower. Guards and crown light pink with red streaks. Collar creamy white. Note colour plate. Pele, 1857. Crown. Pink and cream. Medium. Midseason. Fragrant. Medium height, rather spreading habit. Fairly free bloomer. Garden and cutting.

(Jan 1917)  Page(s) 84.  
 
Alsace Lorraine. Pointed petals arranged like a water-lily. Flower rather flat. Colouring of cream to brownish yellow is very unusual and beautiful. Lemoine, 1906. Semi-rose. Cream white deepening to yellow. Very large. Late. Tall, vigorous, free bloomer. Garden and cutting.

(Jan 1917)  Page(s) 50.  
 
As far back as 1824 (about the time when hybrid perpetual roses began to be popular) , he [Lemon] raised a lot of seedlings of P. officinalis from which came P. anemoniflora alba and P. grandiflora nivea plena.

(1917)  Page(s) 228.  
 
Officinalis...Varieties:....Anemoneflora, single and double crimson with magenta tint.