(May 2007)  
 
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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".

Except for Candy Stripe I steered clear of lactifloras. Roy Pehrson sent me his Junior Miss and Roger Anderson, Candy Stripe. JM is a 10 in my book, double pink, strong stems, wonderful fragrance. The virtue of CS is that its stripes are concentrated in the outer ring of petals. As the flower expands more and more all-white petals emerge from the center, giving the flower a picotee appearance. Other striped clones don’t do this, incl. my own seedlings out of CS. It seldom produced laterals in my garden which, along with the distinctive coloring, ought to make it a wonderful florist’s flower.

(May 2007)  
 
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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".

Except for Candy Stripe I steered clear of lactifloras. Roy Pehrson sent me his Junior Miss and Roger Anderson, Candy Stripe. JM is a 10 in my book, double pink, strong stems, wonderful fragrance. 

(May 2007)  
 
[accessed 2025]
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.