Book excerpt: Excerpt from Peonies and Irises, 1929 So remarkable have been the results accomplished through years of steadfast devotion and untiring effort on the part of the Peony lovers and hybridizers that today the modern Peony is the most superb and out standing flower that grows ln our gardens. 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.