Commercial Gardening 



Syringa (LiLAC). Apart from the many lovely garden varieties and 

 hybrids of the Common Lilac mentioned below there are a few natural 

 species in which a trade is done. Amongst these may be mentioned 

 S. amurensis, 5-6 ft. high, from China and Japan, with broadly ovate 

 leaves and dense rounded trusses of creamy- white flowers; S. chinensis 

 (dubia, rothomagensis), 4-6 ft. high, with ovate lance-shaped leaves, and 

 deep-violet flowers, supposed to be a hybrid between persica and vulgaris. 

 S. Emodi, 6 ft. high, from the Himalayas, has large broadly elliptic or 

 ovate leaves, and purple or white flowers; there is a variegated form. 

 S. japonica (fig. 445) attains a height of 30 ft. in Japan, and has pale-red 

 bark, broadly ovate leaves, and white flowers in panicles 1 ft. or more 



long. S. Josikcea, 5-10 ft. high, 

 from Hungary, has elliptic lance- 

 shaped wrinkled leaves, and pro- 

 duces its bluish-purple flowers later 

 than other species. S. oblata, with 

 purple, and S. pekinensis, with 

 white flowers, both come from 

 China. S. persica, the Persian 

 Lilac, grows 4-7 ft. high, and has 

 small lance -shaped leaves and 

 bluish-purple flowers, but has also 

 a white-flowered variety, alba, and 

 a rosy one, rubra. 



S. vulgaris. This is the com- 

 mon Lilac or " Pipe Tree" of North 

 Persia, whence it has spread all 

 over the temperate regions. The 

 type grows up to 20 ft. high, and 

 has heart-shaped leaves and lilac- 

 purple or white flowers. There are many varieties, single and double 

 flowered, in cultivation, of which the following may be noted: 



Single, White: alba grandiflora, alba virginalis, Marie Legraye, Florent 

 Stepmann, Reine Elizabeth, Mdme Moser. 



Double, White: Mdme Lemoine, Mdme Abel Chatenay, Princess Cle- 

 mentine, Miss Ellen Willmott, Mdme Casimir Perrier. 



Single, Coloured: E. Lemoine, La Tour d'Auvergne, Leon Simon, Souv. 

 de L. Spath, Virginite, Charles X, Louis Van Houtte, Dr. Lindley, Phile- 

 mon, Geant de Batailles, Gloire d'Angers, Leon Mathieu, Leopold II, 

 Macrostachya, Roi Albert, J. D. Messemalker, President Massart, Jacques 

 Callot, Ville de Troyes, &c. 



Double, Coloured: Abel Carriere, Alphonse Lavallee, Charles Joly, Le 

 Gaulois, Jean Bart, President Grevy, Emile Lemoine, Concordat, Prince 

 de Beauveau, Maurice de Vilmorin, Mdme Leon Simon, Due de Massa, 

 Renoncule, Michel Buchner, Marc Micheli, President Carnot, &c. 



Most of these varieties, single and double, are easily forced into early 



Fig. 4i5.Syringa japonica 



