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Rose and peony Breeder and Discoverer
Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
Princeville, Illinois
United States
[From Peonies, by Allan Rogers, p. 18:] Edward Auten, Jr. (1881-1974), Princeville, Illinois... At first he was partial to roses, but he lost most of his specimens to frost in the winter of 1909. Determined to seek out hardier plants, he wisely settled on peonies in 1910... Auten introduced about 275 peony cultivars... but he was particularly noted for his reds... In 1968, fifty-eight years after peonies first caught his eye, he was awarded the American Peony Society's Saunders Memorial Medal...
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