Book  (1917)  Page(s) 88.  
 
Festiva Maxima. Finely formed flower of large white petals. Centre petals splashed with red. Have grown Festive Maxima in my garden with blooms 9 inches across. Note illustration. Miellez, 1851. Rose. White. Very large. Early. Fragrant. Tall, strong, vigorous. Free bloomer. Foliage massive. Garden and cutting.

Website/Catalog  (1912)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Choice List of Peonies
Festiva Maxima — This Is not only the finest white in existence, but in most quarters it is regarded as the queen of all the Peonies.  Mr. Harrison says: "This flower has reached the ultimate beyond which we cannot go."  It combines enormous size with wondrous beauty, often seven to eight inches in diameter; color snow-white, flecked with an occasional clear purple spot on edge of center petals; in addition.  It is very fragrant; a glorious flower, impossible to describe; magnificent.  50 cents each.

Magazine  (Nov 1911)  Page(s) 62.  
 
ALBA MAXIMA. This is a synonym of the well known variety " Festiva Maxima," originated by Miellez in 1851. "Alba Maxima" has been started on its masquerade since 1900.
 

Website/Catalog  (1909)  Page(s) 6.  
 
Festiva Maxima. Enormous full double bloom, petals very-broad, color pure white with an occasional carmine spot, very vigorous grower, one of the best white peonies....$ 1 00

Website/Catalog  (1908)  Page(s) 3.  
 
DOUBLE HERBACEOUS PEONIES SERIES C. 50 cents each
Festiva Maxima, Miellez 1851 enormous bloom, snow white, full, with shell- shaped petals marked blood red: often seven oreight inches in diameter; strong growth, largely grown for market purposes; very extra.

Website/Catalog  (1908)  Page(s) 23.  
 
Festiva Maxima. (Miellez). Pure paper-white, flaked with purplish-carmine on some inner petals; large, rose-shaped bloom; very fragrant; early,; long stems, vigorous. One of the best cut-flower varieties....Each  .30, per 10  2.50, per 100  17.50

Book  (Apr 1907)  Page(s) 83-84.  
 
861. *FESTIVA MAXIMA; P. albiflora. . . (Miellez 1851) or (M. Buyck, 1835.)
(1) 1851, Dessert's MSS.
(2) 1863, Revue Horticole, p. 293.
(3) 1885, Revue Horticole, p. 30.
(4) *1904, Country Life in Am. Vol. 6, p. 416.
(5) *1905, The Garden Mag. Sept. 1905.
(6) 1904, Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc. part 1, p. 177.
(7) *1904, Harrison's Paeony Manual, p. 9.
(8) 1905, Terry's Cat.
(9) 1906, Cottage Gardens' Cat.
(10) *1906, Horticulture, June 2.
(11) *1906, S. G. Harris' Cat. p. 27.
(12) Cornell Plots Nos. 597, 598, 599, 600. 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, 1723, 1724.

 

Book  (Apr 1907)  Page(s) 17.  
 
66. ALBA MAXIMA, P
(1) 1905, De Graaff Bros. Cat. p. 26.
(2) Cornell Plot No. 11.
 

Book  (1907)  Page(s) 6.  
 
Festiva Maxima, with good cultivation, will double every year. If left too long, however, it will have great club-like roots, half decayed near the buds. Most European growers divide every year or two and so keep the plants vigorous.

 

Book  (1907)  Page(s) 16.  
 
The choicest, great, double ones have such full flowers that, like the viburnum sterilis, they cannot bear seed, and yet sometimes such full-orbed ones as Floral Treasure, Festiva Maxima and La Tulipe, will have smaller and thinner blooms, so they can in rare instances produce seeds. But this is at the expense of the flower.