Website/Catalog  (1927)  Page(s) 14.  
 
Elwood Pleas (Pleas 1900) 
American Peony Society Rating of 8.7 (36 votes)
Beautiful shade of shell pink.  Flat, compact flower of fine form.  Upright grower and good bloomer.  A very lovely peony.  Each $3.00

Website/Catalog  (1922)  Page(s) 8.  
 
Seedlings of Mrs. Sarah A. Pleas.
Elwood Pleas—Fine satiny blush pink, free bloomer, large...$6.00

Magazine  (Nov 1921)  Page(s) 159.  
 
"Mrs. Pleas on Raising Seedling Peonies"
...Kelway's single white, The Queen, was our only plant bearing seeds, blooming before any other kind was open; it was not hybridized, yet from this one planting I have every color and shade from White Swan to Black Beauty. [...]
From this one planting of single white seeds came Elwood Pleas, Midsummer Night's Dream, Gem, Mary, Quaker Lady, Shabona, Mad. Pleas, Walter Morgan, Golden Wedding, Nellie Pleas, Gypsy Queen, Laura E. Pleas, and Rosy Dawn in doubles; and in singles, White Swan, Wild Rose, Golden Cushion, Pocahantas; among the Japanese, Dr. Edgar Pleas, Novelty, Altar Candles, and Golden Nugget represent the best. [...]
—Sarah A. Pleas, Whittier, California

Magazine  (Jul 1921)  Page(s) 129.  
 
Mrs. Pleas' Estimate of Her Own Peonies
Standard Double Varieties
Elwood Pleas — Delicate shell-pink, clustered, largest size.

Magazine  (Jan 1920)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Mrs. Pleas' Estimate of Her Own Peonies
by Sarah A. Pleas.
Elwood Pleas is as yet the prettiest solidly double, light shell pink, similar but larger and more floriferous than Richardson's Grandiflora, a close rival.  This has never once failed to bear 6 to 9 blooms on each stem, for me, of largest size.