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covered with such a mass of bloom that the whole bush seems one 

 glorious boquet fit to adorn a king's palace. This group does not sprout 

 from the root. You can dig a trench and pull down the branches and 

 bury them six inches deep leaving the tops out just as you would the 

 Snowball and you can readillj' multiply them by layering. 



Tlic Ligustriana. 



The Ligustriana, also called Amruenisis or Russian, is a sort of a 

 cross between the bush and the tree lilac. It grows straight and takes 

 the tree form though not as rank a grower as the Chinese or Japanese 

 tree lilac. 



These last mentioned are trees. They need some training while 

 j'ouug, but when once compelled to take the tree form they grow nearly 

 as fast and as large as our native ash. 



In the Arnold Arboretum of Boston, I measured a Japanese tree 

 lilac twenty years old which was thirty inches around three feet from 

 the ground. It is said that in the mountains of Japan they are sometimes 

 a foot through and fifty feet tall. Our picture shows one of these trees 

 on our grounds in full bloom when the whole tree is crowned with 

 flowers. This is an important addition to our ornamental trees and 

 proves hardy even in Manitoba. It is often propogated from cuttings 

 which, however, must be well calloused before planting. 



The Chinese Tree Lilac, Syringa Pekinensis, is of a different type. 

 The leaves are small and the twigs are slender. We have some eleven 

 years old that are about eighteen feet tall and four inches through at 

 the base and would make fair sized fence posts. These need a little at- 

 tention at first to make them assume a tree form and even then it is hard 

 to get a stem that is perfectly straight, yet it makes a fair sized tree. 

 When the Pekinensis is crowned with a great mass of white honey 

 scented flowers it is very attractive. An avenue of these trees would add 

 much to the beauty of the landscape. The twigs are so small they often 

 assume a pendulous habit. They are sometimes grafted on the stem of 

 a common lilac, when they make beautiful weepers. Both these trees 

 are June bloomers, often extending the time of flowering down into July. 

 They do such a wholesale business that they can blossom only every 

 other year. 



These with four others mentioned give us six summer bloomers. 

 Some one should graft the Villosa and Bretschneider into the Japanese 

 and so secure a colored flower. 



A dealer once said he had secured some beautiful purple lilacs. I 

 told him there were no such trees He insisted on it and said they were 

 very fine. Visiting the firm which furnished them I asked to see their 

 tree lilacs. They showed me a row of really fine looking specimens of 

 the common lilacs budded on privet. Thus propagated they cannot 

 sprout from the root, but alas, the borers had found them and had 

 ruined every one of them. The borer is bad on the whole Vulgaris 



