And the Qheen was a shining star with her turquoise hat dressed with a delicately pink rose/paeony type of flower. From Wordnik.com. [A Royal Day Out] Reference
Speaking generally, the flowers of the French section resemble the chrysanthemum, and those of the German the paeony. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening for the Million] Reference
Near by, amid a tangle of many-hued corn-flowers I see the promise of coming lilies, the sudden crimson of a solitary paeony; and in lowlier state against the poor parched earth glow the golden cups of the eschseholtzias. From Wordnik.com. [The Roadmender] Reference
When I read about the poppies Alphonse Karr sowed in the wild nooks of his native country, it made me think of John's French poppies, and paeony poppies, and ranunculus poppies, and carnation poppies, some very large, some quite small, some round and neat, some full and ragged like Japanese chrysanthemums, but all of such beautiful shades of red, rose, crimson, pink, pale blush, and white, that if they had but smelt like carnations instead of smelling like laudanum when you have the toothache, they would have been quite perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers] Reference
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