Book  (1928)  Page(s) 57.  
 
A List of Fifty of the Best Inexpensive Varieties
White Varieties
Festiva Maxima (Meillez).  9.3.  White.  This is the most all around popular white peony.  It is the oldest of our really good sorts.  The flowers are large, the petals of the purest white are broad, rounding, and of wonderful substance.  The blossom is true rose type with great broad guards surrounding an inner tightly built up mass of rich white petals almost as large.  Bright carmine flakes on the edge of the central petals.  This flower is admired by everyone who sees it and should be found in every collection.

Website/Catalog  (1927)  Page(s) 14.  
 
Festiva Maxima (Miellez 1851) 
American Peony Society Rating of 9.3 (84 votes)
Pure white, center flecked crimson.  Rose type.  Extra large, showy perfect flowers.  Tall strong and erect.  Very popular.  Each 75¢

Website/Catalog  (1926)  
 
Festiva Maxima -  (Miel. 1851). Very large, globular, rose type. Pure white center, prominently flecked crimson; outer petals sometimes faint lilac-white on first opening. Very tall, strong, vigorous grower. Early. The most popular white variety for cut-flowers. Three year old clump $1.50
 

Website/Catalog  (1926)  Page(s) 79.  
 
Festiva maxima, blanc pur

Website/Catalog  (1925)  Page(s) 39.  
 
Paeonia sinensis...Festiva maxima. Pure white...1 piece M 2.-, 100 pieces M 180.-

Website/Catalog  (1925)  Page(s) 25.  
 
Festiva Maxima.—Pure white, with dashes of blood red at center. Rose type; very early, fragrant. Very sturdy. One of the best whites in existence.

Website/Catalog  (1924)  Page(s) 153.  
 
Pivoines herbacées de Chine...Festiva Maxima, blanc pur avec quelques taches rouge sang.

Magazine  (1924)  
 
Festiva Maxima—Early to midseason; enormous full double flower of pure snow white, flaked wiih carmine spots; for a white, is hard to beat Festiva Maxima... .25 Each, 2.00 Per 10, 18.00 Per 100
 

Website/Catalog  (1921)  Page(s) 30.  
 
Festiva maxima. The safest bloomer among all giant-bloomed whites...1 piece M 9.-, 100 pieces M 800.-

Book  (Jan 1917)  Page(s) 59.  
 
In 1858, H.A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa, one of the pioneers among peony experts of this country, obtained from William Robert Prince, who had inherited the Linnaean Botanic Garden, at Flushing, thirty varities of P. albiflora, inclusing Humei, Pottsii, Reevesii, Comte de Paris, fragrans, festiva maxima, lutetiana, edulis superba, plenissima rosea and Queen Victoria.