Vigorous herbaceous plants, with Large and splendid flowers of various shades of crimson, rosy-crimson, and white, well calculated for producing the finest effects in the wild garden. There are many species and varieties, the flowers of .-nine of the varieties being very sweet-scented, double, and among the largest flowers we know of. Fringes of shrubberies, open glades in woods or copses, and indeed almost any wild place, may be adorned by them ; and they may also be advantageously grouped or isolated on the grass in the rougher parts of the pleasure-ground. I never felt the beauty of the tine colour of Paeonies till I saw a group of the double scarlet kind flowering in the long Grass in Oxfordshire. The owner had placed an irregular group of this plant in an unmown glade, quite away from the garden proper ; and yet, seen from the lawn and garden, the effect was most brilliant, as may be imagined from the way in which such high colours tell in the distance. To be able to produce such effects in the early summer for six weeks or so is a great gain from a landscape point of view, apart from the immediate beauty of the flowers when seen close at hand.