Book  (Jan 1917)  Page(s) 46-47.  
 
In addition to the above-named varieties, the first hybridisers in England had three forms of P. officinalis—rubra (red—the common double red), rosea (rose) and carnescens plena (double flesh white)—with which to make a beginning.

Book  (1917)  Page(s) 228.  
 
Officinalis...Varieties:...Carnescens, deep rose coloured, which grows paler after opening. Sometimes called variegated peony.

Book  (Apr 1907)  Page(s) 49.  
 
447. CARNESCENS, P. officinalis
(1) 1837, Hovey's Mag. Vol. 3, p. 285.
(2) 1897, Gardening p. 202.

Magazine  (4 Jun 1887)  Page(s) 513.  
 
P. officinalis carnescens (the double flesh-coloured Pæony). — This is perhaps, with the exception of anemonæflora, the newest form of the group described here, having first been recorded by Morrison about 1699; on first opening the flowers are of a fine rose colour, and as they advance become pale flesh-coloured.  It is a charming plant, and should be in every garden as a companion to the double red, flowering as it does about the same time.

Magazine  (1854)  Page(s) 300-301.  
 
[From "Les Pivoines herbacées", d'après M. William Wood, Horticulteur, à Holdgate]

La classification horticole des pivoines est basée sur le temps de leur floraison :
Le premier groupe comprend les plantes qui fleurissent depuis la seconde semaine d'avril jusqu'en mai;
Le seconde groupe est formé des plantes en fleur de la première semaine de mai jusqu'en juin;
Le troisième groupe renferme les pivoines en fleur de juin jusqu'en juillet.....
SECOND GROUPE : Fleurs ouvertes de la première semaine de mai jusqu'en juin.
13. Poenia officinalis byzantica (atrorubens).
14. » » rubro pleno.
15. » » carnescens.
16. Paeonia officinalis anemonaeflora.
17. » » lobata.
18. » » albicans.

Ce groupe comprend des espèces et variétés hautement pittoresques , constituant des plantes grandes, robustes et vivaces, de deux à trois pieds de hauteur, les feuilles largement mais simplement lobées, des têtes fleuries abondamment, des corolles de 6 à 9 pouces en diamètre, variant depuis le pourpre le plus foncé, jusqu'au carmin brillant et l'incarnat le plus tendre. Ces plantes sont admirables pour orner le devant des parterres ou des parcs arborés. On ne connaît rien de mieux pour remplir ce but.....
Le Paeonia officinalis carnescens est peut être la plus jolie des variétés roses ou carminées. La grandeur et la distinction de ses fleurs en font une des noblesses du genre.

Magazine  (Aug 1837)  Page(s) 285.  
 
Some Remarks on the herbaceous Paeonies, together with a description of most of the Species and Varieties, and a few observations upon their Propagation, Cultivation, &c. By the Conductor. (p. 283-292)
P. officinàlis var. carnéscens.—A very showy double variety, with pale rosy flowers faintly striped with a deeper tint: habit the same as its parent. In full flower from the 4th to the 12th of June. Together with the last named, it should be found in every good collection.

Magazine  (Apr 1836)  Page(s) 231.  
 
Plantes d'agrément.
Tableau du genre Pivoine, Pæonia Linn.
Voici donc le catalogue de toutes les pivoines dans l'ordre que l'a publié le prince de Salm Dyck, et auquel j'ajoute les belles variétés de pivoines à tige ligneuse obtenues par MM. Noisette et Mathieu.  On reconnaîtra ces dernières, en ce que le nom de chacune d'elle est suivi de Nois., ou Math.
PIVOINES.
VII. Les Lobées.
27. elegans Sab.
28. fulgida Sab.
29. lobata Desf.
- flore coccineo Hort Dyck.
- staminibus elegantissimis Hort. Dyck.
30. officinalis Retz.
- angustifolia Hort. Dyck.
- glaucescens Hort. Dyck.
- intermedia Sab.
- imbricata Sab.
- blanda Anders.
- rosea Anders.
- flore pleno Hort. Dyck.
- Sabini Anders.
- anemoneflora Salm.
- rubra Anders.
- atrorubens Sab.
- id. fol. variegatis.
- carnescens Anders.
- albicans Anders.
- alba Hort Dyck.

Magazine  (Feb 1832)  Page(s) 107.  
 
Provincial Nurseries.
England. Cheshire.
The Bache Pool Nursery, near Chester, Messrs. F. and J. Dickson, containing upwards of 50 acres, was commenced in 1816 by the present occupiers.
Pæònia officinàlis carnéscens.

Article (magazine)  (1818)  Page(s) 268.  
 
5. Pæonia officinalis.....Notwithstanding the partial pubescence observable on this and the preceding, we are in no kind of doubt in considering them mere varieties of the first-described and of the double-flowered varieties enumerated below. ...
ε. carnescens; floribus plenissimis saturate roseis.  Double flesh-coloured Pæony.
P. flore pleno incarnato. Moris. Plant. Hist. v. ii. p. 455.
P. officinalis carnescens.  Double flesh-coloured Pæony. Sabine in Hort. Trans. v. ii. p. 275.
This beautiful variety is not of so old an introduction as the preceding.  Morison gives us the first account of it, in 1699.  The flower opens of a fine rose colour, and afterwards becomes pale flesh; it is not so common as the preceding, but nevertheless is too well known among the gardeners to require any further description.
 

Magazine  (1818)  Page(s) 275.  
 
An Account of seven double Herbaceous Paeonies, now cultivated in England. In a letter to George Anderson, Esq. F.L.S. Sf-c. By Joseph Sabine, Esq.F.R.S. &c. Secretary.
Read November 5, 1816. ...

The double flesh-coloured Paeony, (P. officinalis carnescens) opens of a deep rose-colour, progressively becoming paler, and at length turns to a flesh colour ; the centre and bottom of the petals remaining red in stripes or rays, whilst the edges are nearly white, which circumstance has caused it to be called by some gardeners the Variegated Paony.

....A detailed description of the above three is unnecessary; they all flower in the end of May, they have but little scent, and that not agreeable ; the outside petals of the flowers are, in shape and size, like those of the single plants ; the inside petals, which are the converted stamens, are narrower, and fill up the whole internal space, except what is occupied by the sterile germens. The plants are easy of cultivation, and will succeed in any situation except that of deep shade, but do not like frequent removal ; the only particular to be attended to in planting them is, that their tuberous roots should notbe cut or broken ; it is therefore best, when an increase is required, to take up the whole root before it be divided, instead of separating it in the ground by the knife or spade.