R. M. COOLEY, Silverton, Oregon 



offers 

 THE KLAGER 



LOVELIER LILACS 



With the rapid advance of gardening in this country comes a 

 desire for. and an appreciation of. the finer and rarer garden ma- 

 terial. This demand for the best has developed a great many spe- 

 cialists among commercial growers, and the garden lover is the 

 gainer, for in most cases the specialist can be depended upon to 

 have a wider knowledge of his chosen subject, and because his first 

 interest is love for the game rather than mercenary, the purchaser 

 can feel that he is getting personal service that will express itself 

 in the material bought. 



No deciduous shrub has yielded tg the efforts of hybridizers as 

 has the lilac, l^hough comparatively few flower lovers are familiar 

 with them, the French Hybrid Lilacs are so much superior to the 

 forms with which we ordinarily associate the term "lilac," that 

 it is puzzling to understand why. One reason of course is the im- 

 practicability of bringing in stock from abroad, on account of 

 quarantine regulations, but there are some notable collections in 

 this country, located at the Arnold Arboretum near Boston, at 

 Rochester. N. Y.. and the fine collection of the late Col. Plum in 

 Chicago. A few nurserymen are offering select stock of many of 

 the best French and American varieties, but the number is limited. 



We are specialists in the Klager American Hybrid Lilacs — new 

 forms of this lovely flower, produced by Mrs. Hulda Klager of 

 Woodland. Washington. The varieties offered in this catalogue 

 are all the result of twenty-five years of constant and painstaking 

 work and study on her part, and have been selected as the finest 

 from tens of thousands of seedlings which have flowered during 

 this long period. Very few of the present familiar French lilacs 

 were knovv^n in this country when Mrs. Klager began her work. 

 Starting with the best obtainable at that time, she began a series 

 of thought out crosses, and from time to time saved only the most 

 promising. Her years of effort have borne fruit, and today her gar- 

 dens near the little town of Woodland are a mecca for thousands 



