Book  (Jan 1999)  Page(s) 320.  
 
Mary Brand Herbaceous Peony. Brand (USA) 1907... red

Website/Catalog  (1940)  Page(s) 10.  
 
Peonies
Mary Brand (Late Mid-season) Silky deep red. 60¢

Book  (1928)  Page(s) 57.  
 
A List of Fifty of the Best Inexpensive Varieties
Red Varieties
Mary Brand (Brand).  8.7.  Red.  No red peony ever attained such favor so quickly as has Mary Brand.  This variety is always found among the winning reds in every show room.  It comes into bloom with Frances Willard.  Its color is so distinct that it is easily recognized by amateurs, no matter how many times they pass it in our fields.  It is a red in which there is little trace of purple.  One of the most satisfactory reds as a cut flower as it will last a week and hold right up stiff, if cut in the bud.

Website/Catalog  (1927)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Mary Brand (Brand 1907) 
American Peony Society Rating of 8.7 (27 votes)
Deep red with silky sheen.  Semi-rose type.  Large flower.  Midseason.  Each $3.00

Website/Catalog  (1926)  
 
Mary Brand—(Brand 1907). A new crimson variety with a silky sheen of wonderful brillancy. The golden stamens are scattered through the center of fringed petals. Mid-season. One of the best of its color and a mass of crimson bloom. Three year old clump $5.00

Magazine  (1924)  
 
Mary Brand— (Brand 1907)—A vivid crimson with a silky sheen 3.50 Each
 

Book  (1923)  Page(s) 28-9.  
 
A Few of the Newer American Varieties
Many of the recent and widely advertised peonies have come from the West. Mr. Brand, of Faribault, Minnesota, made the production of new varieties his great specialty. Out of thousands of seedlings, grown in a wholesale and most interesting way, he has selected and placed in commerce about fifty. [...]
In Mary Brand (Brand, 1907) and Longfellow (Brand, 1907) Mr. Brand has presented two red peonies of excellent color. The really good shades of red are few among peonies, and they are always eagerly sought by collectors. But in my garden Mary Brand has proved to be a weak grower and shy bloomer. It evidently comes within the number of western peonies which are not at their best in the eastern climate and soils. Longfellow appears to have a stronger constitution than Mary Brand.