Book  (Jan 2000)  Page(s) 223.  
 
Victory Chateau Thierry Herbaceous Peony. Brand 1925. A double pink lactiflora

Book  (1928)  Page(s) 25.  
 
New Peonies Originated by A. M. Brand
In 1923, at the St. Paul-Minneapolis National Peony Show, we exhibited about twenty of our new peonies.  These seedlings were all varieties selected by us in 1920 from our trial beds. [...] The judges told us after the judging was done that it was the greatest exhibit of new peonies ever staged anywhere by an originator.  These seedlings were awarded the Society’s Gold and Silver Medals, the Gold Medal going to the variety Mrs. A. M. Brand, a great white, and the Silver Medal to the variety Myrtle Gentry, a delicate pink. Several awards of merit were also given.
...In this collection of Seedlings appeared the following varieties:
Victory Chateau Thierry (A. M. Brand 1925).  Pink.  In 1923 we wrote of this wonderful sort. “Occasionally there appears in a bed of seedling peonies some flower so beautiful, either in form or color or both, that the plant breeder recognizes at once a masterpiece.  Such a flower was Victory Chateau Thierry.  I first noticed its immense, pure, clean, pink buds just before they opened in the seed bed.  The next morning I was up long before the sun to see the opening flower.  When my eyes rested upon the five immense half opened blooms, I realized that then and there a mile stone was passed in the history of the peony.  When noon came and four of these great blooms were fully open, I knew for a certainty that another peony, a great pink, had come to take its station with Le Cygne, Solange, Therese and Lady Alexandra Duff."  This flower is one of the earliest of good peonies and so early that we have never been able to take it to a National Show.  In 1927 it bloomed in perfection and in our own show easily out-classed anything in the room, although it was shown alongside of the world’s highest rating peonies.  We kept the buds in storage in our refrigerator and brought fresh bloom into the show room every other day.
Victory Chateau Thierry is a very large flower with immense broad, evenly arranged rounded petals of great substance.  Its petals remind one of the great petals of Lady Alexandra Duff.  A bright clear pink.  This is one of those outstanding flowers of which we have so few in peonies.  It is a flower that will take its place by the side of Le Cygne.