LILACS 36 
The old-fashioned purple Lilac has a delicious fragrance that lingers in the 
memonr from one blooming season to another. No shrub has been so highly de- 
veloped under cultivation. Tlie best new varieties have immense clusters of large 
plumes, laden with sweetness. Some are double, some single. The white, reddish 
purple, and blue varieties lend themselves to many color schemes. 
The Lilac grows rapidly, flowers profusely, has beautiful rich green foliage, free 
frorn insects. It can be used in many ways; for hedges, masses, for hiding ob- 
jectionable sights, and, when planted alone, it makes a good bush, which improves 
with age and bears more blooms each year. Cut flowers from the improved varieties 
find a ready sale on the city markets. 
The old flower clusters should be removed, and the pruning done as soon as 
they are through blooming, as the bloom buds for next year form late the preceding 
summer. 
LILAC, OLD-FASHIONED PURPLE So well known as to need no detailed 
(S. Vulgaria) description. Grows eight to ten feet 
tall. Upright. Hardy. Suitable for mass or hedge. 
LUDWIG SPATH Long plumes of single, perfectly fomied, little flowers of a 
dark reddish purple. The inside of the flower is darker than the outside, showing 
beautiful contrasting shadows. Blooms in May or June. Upright: six to eight 
feet tall. Hardy. 
MADAME ABEL CHATENAY Large trusses of plumes. The dainty little flow- 
ers are double and of exceeding purity and whiteness. Tl e best of all tl:e whites. 
Blooms in May or June. Upright; six to eight feet tall. Hardy. 
PRESIDENT GREVY A light blue. Double. The trusses are unusually large 
and perfect. One of the rarest and best. Blooms in May or June. Upright; 
six or eight feet tall. 
Note. — There is as much difference between the budded Lilacs — Ludwig Spath, 
Madame Abel Chatenay, President Grevy — and the Old-fashioned purple as there 
is between the new varieties of fruits and wild seedlings. The budded varieties are 
uniform, have larger bloom, greater fragrance and beauty. 
LlUo — Uadams Abel Chatenay, Dtue white. LUao — Ludwig Spath, reddlsb^purvle. 
