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which is remarkable for its dwarf and almost herbaceous
habit. It was raised from seeds of the papaveracea, which
his Lordship supposes had been accidentally fertilized by
some of the herbaceous species. All the varieties raised at
Arley, were from papaveracea, and not from Banksii, as the
gardener had inadvertently stated. The papaveracea appears
to be really the normal form of the species, as the late Mr.
George Anderson suggested. The tree Pseonies are propagated
by layers, which should be twisted a little, and the
soil best adapted for them is a mixture of vegetable earth
and fresh meadow loam.
For an account of the other varieties of the tree Pseony,
we refer our readers to Mr. Sabine’s elaborate paper in the
sixth volume of the Transactions of the Horticultural Society.
The generic name is derived, according to some, from
P(Eon, a noted physician of antiquity; and by others, which
is much the most probable, from Paonia, a mountainous
country of Macedonia, where some of the species grow wild.
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