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Paeonia 'Gypsy'

type: [herbaceous peony] – [species cultivar] – [lactiflora]

origination:

Hollis

Peonies, The Manual of the American Peony Society, edited by James Boyd © 1928 American Peony Society: [Descriptive List of Chinese Peonies]

GYPSY. (Hollis, 1904.) 8.0.

Japanese type; medium size; midseason. Guards dark wine-red, evenly rounded and cupped; center of almost fully transformed petal-oids, light at the base, shading to the same color as the guards on the face, and creamy white on the reverse, lightly bordered buff at the tips; carpels rosy green, tipped red. Medium tall; upright; slender but stiff stems.

"A redder Torpilleur that does not 'feather' in the center."—Little.

"Odor unpleasant. Growth strong and healthy. Free-blooming. Foliage

Old-rose-pink is rery carefully defined as bluish pink in the article on color referred to before. Professor Saunders therefore says it has no blue, and Mr. Thurlow says it has. They don't agree at all.—Stevens.

well-furnished, medium green. Poor for cut bloom. Landscape value good. Variety as a whole good."—Cornell Bulletin No. 306.

GYPSY (Hollis, 1904) - Jap. - Red - Midseason. Medium height. Medium size. Guards dark wine-red, evenly rounded and cupped; center of almost fully transformed petaloids, light at the base, shading to the same color as the guards on the face, and creamy white on the reverse. Lightly bordered buff at the tips; carpels rosy green, tipped red. Upright; slender but stiff stems. M,

This picture is from La Pivoinerie D'Aoust, c.p. 220, Hudson Hts, QC, Canada, J0P 1J0, Phone: 1 450 458-2759 Web: www.paeonia.com email: lindsay.daoust@paeonia.com . For large resolution pictures of this cultivar look in the 'Gallery' of the Heartland Peony Society's Website www.peonies.org .






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