Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record 



VOL. XXX 



JULY, 1041 N°- 3 



LILACS 



IN THE 



BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 



INCLUDING 



CLASSIFICATION, CULTIVATION, 



PATHOLOGY 



LILAC SPECIES AND VARIETIES 

 By Alfred Gundersen 



CONTENTS 



I. Introduction— The Odor of Lilacs— Lilac Colors 



II. Species and their Varieties, except Syringa vulgaris Varieties 



III. Hybrids between Species and their Varieties 



I V. White Varieties of Syringa vulgaris 



V. Light Colored Varieties 



VI. Dark Colored Varieties 



VII. References 



VIII. Index to lilacs in Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1941 210 



I. Introduction 



More than twenty species of lilacs grow in Eastern Asia, two in 

 Europe. There is no known reference to lilacs in ancient litera- 

 ture. It is thought by some that the lilac was first brought to the 

 attention of Europeans by Pierre Belon dti Mans (1554) who, in 

 his Observations (p. 368 verso), describes a shrub with violet 

 colored flowers in inflorescences so long that the Turks called the 

 plant "queue de Regnard." Clusius (Rariorum aliquot stirpium, 



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