Having found three or four men who had a special fancy for the peony, I allowed them to occupy themselves entirely in the peony room.
Next to the chrysanthemum the peony was effective in the decoration of Chinese porcelain.
A rare and very beautiful oviform Vase, containing on the body two large panels, one with a bird on the branch of a plum-tree, the other with a peony on the branch of a tree under which is a large chrysanthemum and foliage.
A tree of peony with green, white, and grey blossoms appears to us to be fantastic, but the peony in China grew to the height of 12 ft.
The other round panel shows a bird on a branch of the peony in flower.
The same rose decoration was continued by Keen-lung, which had an especial form of decoration consisting of the rose and white peony with the prunus--the so-called hawthorn.
This is our snow-image, which Peony and I have made because we wanted another playmate.
The mother thought to herself that it must certainly be the daughter of one of the neighbors, and that, seeing Violet and Peony in the garden, the child had run across the street to play with them.
Violet still seemed to be the guiding spirit; while Peony acted rather as a laborer and brought her the snow from far and near.
It is our little snow-image which Peony and I have been making.
Turning up the collar of his sack over his ears, he emerged from the house, and had barely reached the street-gate when he was recalled by the screams of Violet and Peony and the rapping of a thimbled finger against the parlor window.
Violet assumed the chief direction and told Peony what to do, while, with her own delicate fingers, she shaped out all the nicer parts of the snow-figure.
Now, for a few moments, there was a busy and earnest but indistinct hum of the two children's voices, as Violet and Peony wrought together with one happy consent.
The flower and leaves of the peony (BOTAN), as conventionalized on ancient armor (yoroi).
The excellent ballads sung in the Peony Pavilion touch the tender heart of Tai-yü.
Defn: The Chinese tree peony (Pæonia Mountan), a shrub with large flowers of various colors.
Magdalen Brant appeared, fresh and sweet as a rose-peony on a dewy morning.
I waited for a while, strolling about the deserted garden, where a few poppies turned their crimson disks towards the setting sun, and a peony lay dead and smelling rank, with the ants crawling all over it.
Aunt Amandy lent me two aprons and a sack and a petticoat for the peony bushes, and Aunt Viney gave me this shawl and three chemises that cover all the pinks.
You put me in mind of that blush peony bush of yourn by the front gate.
Mrs, Peony and Daisy Clover are intimate at all hours.
There no attraction is necessary but the fine house, gay parties, and understood rank of Mrs. Peony to draw men to Miss Rosa's side.
Mrs. Peony says she thinks that in future she shall really pass the summer in a farm-house or if she goes to a watering-place, confine herself to her own rooms and her carriage, and look at the people through the blinds.
She would not have spoiled this peony for a great deal, for she had looked forward with much pleasure to the time when it should bud and blossom, and fill the garden with its fragrance.
Mrs. Lamb was very angry when she saw that the peony was spoiled; and she took Kate by the arm, and shook her.
Illustration: THE PEONY AT ITS BEST] Peonies are superb flowers, and no border can afford to be without them.
The Mongols," she tells us, "use the seed of the wild Peony in tea, and flavor their broth with its roots.
Mrs. Pratt tells us that in England "the lower classes turn beads of the Peony root, which form necklaces for their children, and are supposed to aid dentition, and prevent convulsions.
The Peony is greatly disquieted by removal, and, though sturdily tenacious of life, refuses for a year or two after transplanting, to "do its level best.
The Peony may be commended to the perennial grower, not only as a lovely flower, but as a plant to "tie to.
She strode to the gorgeouspeony lampshade and lifting it off, gibbeted it and scattered the fragments on the floor.
This lamp poured its light through a lampshade having the semblance of a bursting crimson peony as some morning in June the flower with the weight of its own splendor falls face downward on the grass.
But the emblems of Sorrow are beautiful things at their perfect moment; a red peony just opening, a rainbow seen for an instant on the white foam, youth not yet faded but already fading, joy with its finger on his lips, bidding adieu.
Birthwort long and round, Galanga greater and lesser, Peony male and female, Hog’s Fennel.
Reason told me Male Peony was best for men, and Female Peony for women, and he desires to be judged by his brother Dr.
MALE Peony rises up with brownish stalks, whereon grow green and reddish leaves, upon a stalk without any particular division in the leaf at all.
The picture from E is done from among the reds and strong yellows and looks to point C, and further, through the arch of Rose and Clematis, to the Peony garden beyond.
Bostock and Riley add the comment that "the peony has no medicinal virtues whatever".
If my contention is justified, it may provide the explanation of how the confusion arose by which the peony came to have attributed to it a "smell like myrrh".
The attributes of some of the plants which Pliny discusses along with the peony are suggestive.
Shibuichi inlaid with shakudo used to be the commonest combination of metals in this class of decoration, and the objects usually depicted were bamboos, crows, wild-fowl under the moon, peony sprays and so forth.
Violet still seemed to be the guiding spirit, while Peony acted rather as a labourer and brought her the snow from far and near.
The mother thought to herself that it must certainly be the daughter of one of the neighbours, and that, seeing Violet and Peony in the garden, the child had run across the street to play with them.
This is our snow-image, which Peony and I have made, because we wanted another playmate.
Violet assumed the chief direction, and told Peony what to do, while, with her own delicate fingers, she shaped out all the nicer parts of the snow-figure.
Turning up the collar of his sack over his ears, he emerged from the house, and had barely reached the street-gate, when he was recalled by the screams of Violet and Peony and the rapping of a thimbled finger against the parlour window.
Tradition asserts that the Peony is the floral descendant of Paeon, who was a pupil of the great AEsculapius.
In the emblematic language of flowers, the Peony is the representative of bashful shame.
She followed the peony path from the lake to the thicket, entered among the trees and pushed her way forward.
Upon him drifted Mrs. Worthington, like a peony in the tideway.
The peony root will stand lots of abuse after being thoroughly ripe, but still it is best to handle it with care.
We had few varieties--peony buyers had not yet become critical.
I have given you the history of this single bed because it shows about how the seedling peony must be handled.
If you plant a peony on the lawn you have to fertilize it heavily.
The gaillardia, larkspur and columbine should be planted about as the oriental poppy with the crowns perhaps not quite as much above the ground, while the peony should be set so that the bud is covered two or three inches.
Your peony growth does not complete its development until about the middle of September, and if you cut the top off just as soon as the plant has blossomed you are going to have a great many of them rot.
Just as our peony season was closing we had a severe hailstorm which cut our peony beds right off down to the ground.
Nothing is gained by setting iris or peonies in the spring, for nine times out of ten they will not bloom the same season they are set, while if set in the fall nearly all varieties of either the iris or peony will bloom the next year.
The peony industry as far as the West was concerned was in its infancy then.
Brand, of Faribault, one of the best peony specialists in the state.
Our reporter got this far: "I have attended the national peony shows of Boston and New York, and they cannot hold a candle to your peonies, mark that!
We often hear an agent say or we read in some catalogue, "When you have the peony planted all is done.
For the sake of protection the peony needs no winter mulch.
Right here at the start I wish to correct an erroneous impression about the peony that has been spread broadcast throughout the land by means of not too carefully edited catalogues and misinformed salesmen.
I want to see if my white peony is going to blossom; come over to the stone seat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
