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There are both herbaceous and woody peonies.  Oddly, they are graft compatible.  It is easy to divide herbaceous peonies to propagate them, but very hard to do so with tree-peonies, so the standard way to propagate them is to graft a woody stem onto an herbaceous rootstock.  (Sometimes the "nurse-root" is removed after a couple of years.)  I don't care enough about peonies to be likely to try grafting them myself, but it's been interesting following the discussion.  What's particularly interesting is that there are a number of people who claim to be experienced and knowledgble, and they give contradictory advice.  There's a general life-lesson there, I think.

Ginda

On Apr 18, 2004, at 11:41 PM, Jwlehman@aol.com wrote:

> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this. Peonies are herbaceous while roses and trees are woody. They are structured differently and what works well in grafting one may not work well on the other. 
>
>  My advise is don't take advise on one for the other. 
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