Book  (Jan 2000)  Page(s) 162.  
 
Auguste Dessert Herbaceous Peony. Dessert 1920. A semi-double pink lactiflora

Book  (Jan 1999)  Page(s) 252.  
 
Auguste Dessert Herbaceous Peony. Dessert (France) 1920. Semi-double Pink... Rounded, clear pink petals pale to silvery white at the margins... [one of the varieties the author highly recommends]

Magazine  (1986)  Page(s) 202.  
 
'Auguste Dessert', pétales arrondis, carmin cramoisi;

Book  (1928)  Page(s) 60.  
 
A List of Sixty Choice Peonies of the More Expensive Varieties
Red Varieties
Auguste Dessert (Dessert).  8.7.  This is one of the best of all the later peonies sent out by Dessert.  This variety was considered of such excellence by the originator that he gave it his own name.  We give Dessert’s own description.  “Flower cup-shaped of fine form, with rounded petals, very brilliant, velvety crimson, carmine, with silvery reflex and often streaked white; very large silvery border; visible stamens intermixed with the petals in many flowers.  A superb variety, awarded certificate of merit at the Paris show, June 2, 1920.”  We consider this variety and Elisa the two best of the later varieties sent out by Dessert.  A brilliant light red that is very distinct in form and a most desirable sort.

Website/Catalog  (1927)  Page(s) 10.  
 
Auguste Dessert (Dessert 1920) 
Velvet crimson carmine with silky reflex and often streaked white; silver border on petals.  Distinct cup shaped flower.  This peony is distinct in color and is getting to be quite a prize winner.  Each $15.00

Magazine  (Aug 1923)  Page(s) 118.  
 
SOCIÉTÉ LYONNAISE D’HORTICULTURE Procès-verbal de l’Assemblée générale du dimanche 10 juin 1923...
APPORTS. — Sont exposés : ... Par M. Auguste Forest, amateur, 8, chemin des Rivières, à Lyon-Vaise, une superbe collection de 47 variétés de Pivoines de Chine dont 21 nouvelles ; parmi ces dernières, nous citerons : Antoine Dessert, velouté incarnat carmin très brillant ; Aurore, rose chair tendre devenant blanc ; Alsace-Lorraine, blanc crème teinté beurre frais ; Le Cygne, blanc pur ; Philippe Rivoire, pourpre amarante foncé ; Mont-Blanc, blanc pur ; Reine Mohely,  grenat foncé ; Suzette, rose bengale bordé argent ; Victoire de la Marne, rouge carmin foncé, etc.
....A M. Auguste Forest, une grande médaille de vermeil pour sa collection de Pivoines de Chine.