PEONY SHOP HOLLAND - Key Persons

Mr. Edward Auten Jr. was born in 1881, at Princeville, Illinois, USA. He graduated from Harvard University in 1904. Mr. Edward Auten Jr. planted his first peonies in 1910 and began experimenting with seedlings in 1916. He has received for his originations an Honorable Mention from the American Peony Society, the Midwest Peony and Iris Society, and a special prize offered by the Brand Peony Farms for a seedling of the Japanese type. Mr. Edward Auten Jr. was a member of the American Peony Society's special committee investigating Japanese and Single types.

Peony Gay Paree is a Midseason Anemone type of Japanese flowers cerise pink with creamy white Peony Herbaceous Lactiflora, bright pink guard petals surround a full center of mixed pink and creamy white petaloids, fragrant, good for cut-flower production, Average height 36 inch / 91.5 cm, American Peony Society Gold Medal 2023.