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Mrs. Pleas' Estimate of Her Own Peonies
by Sarah A. Pleas.
My Altar Candles is well named clustered chandeliers, burning without consuming sweetest incense from Sabbath to Sabbath, growing more beautiful in death, when it scatters its candles of alabaster purity without extinguishing their flame, on the bosom of mother earth as a sacrificial offering to its foster mother.  They rattle off like so many toothpicks before wilting.

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Mrs. Pleas' Estimate of Her Own Peonies
Japanese Varieties
Altar Candles — The most unique of all the class; a living candelabrum, its little waxen candles (stamens), each with a flat, flame-colored tip, never wilt, but finally shell off like the stamens of Magnolia Grandiflora.

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Mrs. Pleas' Estimate of Her Own Peonies
Standard Double Varieties
Anna Teas — Double white; small flowers; not listed, but equal to Terry's The Bride, growing next to it.

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Standard Double Varieties
C. E. Pleas — Semi-rose; clustered; upright and strong; double; pinkish, the blooms tending to be of uneven shade, darker and lighter, but not spotted or striped.

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Standard Double Varieties
Damask Rose — Full double; small size; similar to rose in form and color.

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Standard Double Varieties
Deborah — Full double; rosy white, fading white; calendula-shaped petals.

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Dr. Edgar Pleas is another even prettier little Jap, with fine clusters of bloom, light pink guards, center petaloids bright canary, fading white when at its best.  After the plant is strong the narrow yellow petaloids put on airs by developing a wide, curved plume of pure white, much wider than the yellow petaloids themselves, midway on the petaloids; resembling the plumes on the "Mums", hence its name.  I first called it Ostrich Plume.

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Japanese Varieties
Dr. Edgar Pleas — One of the sweetest and one of the longest in bloom; guards rosy, fading white; petaloids bright canary, fading white; on well-developed plants the yellow stamens are mounted with snow-white plumes, midway that are cupped and curved, and that are wider than the petaloids.  Other appropriate names suggested for this variety have been White Cap and Ostrich Plume.

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There were Nettie Eliott, E. Y. Teas, (the florist), M. R. Beckett, Yellow Rose, and more than a full score no less pretty, which, as their originator, I could not part with.  A very few of my choicest kinds were lost, and, to my regret, never sent out.

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Mrs. Pleas' Estimate of Her Own Peonies
by Sarah A. Pleas.
Elwood Pleas is as yet the prettiest solidly double, light shell pink, similar but larger and more floriferous than Richardson's Grandiflora, a close rival.  This has never once failed to bear 6 to 9 blooms on each stem, for me, of largest size.