Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select List of Peonies and Irises, 1923-24 Areos, broad silky petals of delicate shell pink changing lighter as flower matures. Very early. Celeste brochet, milk white petals thickly sprinkled with minute dots of lilac, giving a total effect or pale lavender or faint pink, Stock limited. Each. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.