With Paeonies, as with Tulips, we have a taller and later blooming race, having flowers of the most lovely color imaginable, bold round buds which open out gradually into great semi-double flowers of a rosy crimson color, or with broad guard petals of a delicate salmon-rose tint around a mass of creamy white or sulphur-tinted petals in the center of the flower. That they are fragrant also is another recommendation apart altogether from their showiness. When cut in the bud stage and brought indoors, the flowers of these late Paeonies are most charming; no Cattleya Mendeli could be more pure or more delicate in color, and no painting could well do them justice, albeit that M. Fautin has a lovely group of these identical flowers in the Academy exhibition. Although now and then seen in old-fashioned gardens on warm soils, they are not nearly so common as a sight of their beauty would lead one to expect. Of what species or race comes these tall, late Paeonies ? They are quite distinct from the early-blooming or P. officinalis set, and even more beautiful. - The Garden.