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Paeonia 'Skylark'

type: [herbaceous peony] – [herbaceous hybrid]



9505-9718

lac #441

x

lobata (Perry)

=

'Skylark', 'Claudia'

22, 24







SKYLARK (Saunders, 1942) -. Single - Pink - Hybrid. High-held single blossoms of clear bright rose pink. Albiflora x lobata. Lists in Bulletins 91 and 129. Saunders catalog, 1955 and letter.

Skylark (1942) Gay flowers held high above the leaves [Albiflora x lobata - the great race of „lobata hybrids“ This group contains many beautiful pink and red tones so long desired in the Chinese peonies; salmon, coral, rose and deep cherry pinks, to clear bright crimsons, with no hint of purple and never a bad color in all the hundreds that have bloomed. I think this is the most brilliant and e effective strain of herbaceous hybrids yet produced. . Their season is generally M. They set hardly any seed, but their F2's may be interesting. About a dozen reds, and almost thirty pinks have been introduced, many of them so similar to one another that I have now tried to sort them roughly into color groups. The pinks especially, fade off as the flower ages , into pale peach shades, so that a mature plant will have flowers of many differing tones, but all harmonious [..] are single except when otherwise noted. Shades of rose

Skylark Season Type Single Color Pink Size Details (Saunders, 1942)
Hybrid. High-held single blossoms of clear bright rose pink. Very showy





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