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CLIBRANS’ LIST OF SHRUBS. 
EVERGREEN, DECIDUOUS AND FLOWERING SHRUBS— continued. 
SYRINGA (Lilac). 
2053 Emodi, (lowers purplish or white, very distinct. 2 to 3 feet, 9d. each, 6/- per doz.; 
3 to 4 feet, 1/- each, 9/- per doz.; 4 to 5 feet, 1/6 each, 12/- per doz. 
2056 Dr. BretSChneider [Emodi Rosea), a rose-flowered form. 1/-, 1/6 to 2/6 each. 
2059 variegata, leaves large, and in spring finely edged with gold. 1/-, 1/6 to 2/6 each. 
2062 japonica [The Japan Lilac). Makes a straight, stout, well-branched tree, attaining 
30 feet in height, very hardy; flowering in midsummer, the panicles of white flowers 
measuring sometimes 16 to 24 inches in length. It is truly the noblest member 
of a great family. 1/-, 1/6 to 2/6 each. 
2065 persica (The Persian Lilac), dwarf, erect, very distinct. 6d., 9d., 1/- to 1/6 each, 5/-, 
7/6, 9/- to 12/- per doz. 
2068 alba (The Persian White Lilac). 9d., 1/- to 1/6 each, 6/-, 9/-, 12/- and 15/- per doz. 
2071 rothomagensis (The Siberian or Chinese Lilac), very free-flowering purple species. 2 to 
3 feet, 4d. to 6d. each, 3/- to 5/- per doz. ; 3 to 4 feet, 6d. and 9d. each, 5/- and 6/- 
per doz. 
2077 vulgaris (The Common Purple Lilac). 11 to 2 feet, 3/- per doz., 17/6 per 100; 2 to 3 
feet, 4/- per doz., 22/6 per 100; 3 to 4 feet, 9d. each, 6/- per doz., 30/- per 100. 
2078 Abel Carriere, dark blue, double, fine. 
2080 alba ( The Common While Lilac). 2 to 3 feet, 6d. and 9d. each, 5/- and 7/6 per 
doz., 30/- and 40/- per 100; large bushes, 3 to 4 feet high, and extra broad, 1/- each, 
9/- per doz.; larger, 1/6 to 2/6 each. 
2083 — grandiflora, pure white; flowers splendid in size and form. ^ 
2086 Alphonse Lavallee, doable, large flowered variety, with sky-blue shaded 
violet flowers. 
2088 Charles Joly, double dark red, fine. 
2089 Charles X., deep purplish lilac, extra fine trusses; a fine forcing variety ; white 
if forced in a dark place. 
2091 Francisque Morel, blush-pink; double. 
2090 fl. pi. Comte de Kerchove, double, a free-flowering variety; a good grower; 
attractive. 
2092 — — Gloire de Moulins, rose changing to lavender-blue; very full and extra fine. 
2095 Lamarck, double, rose, changing to bluish-lilac, white centre. 
2098 Le Gaulois, double, dark peach, light blue centre. 
2101 Lemoine), double, rose, changing to lilac, very fine variety. 
2104 — — Leon Simon, double, spike compact, bluish-violet, buds coral red; very fine. 
2105 Madame Abel Chatenay, double, pure white, very floriferous. extra fine. 
2107 Madame Briot, rich reddish-purple. 
2108 — Madame Casimir Perier, double creamy-white, very fine. 
2109 Madame F. Morel, single, pinkish-violet, extra long spikes of flowers. 
21 10 — Madame Lemoine, double, compact spike, 10 inches in length, and of the purest 
white; splendid. 
2112 Mdlle. Fernande Viger, single, pure white sweet-scented flowers, produced in 
spikes, 12 inches in length. 
2113 — — Marie Legray e, see illustration, page 73, pure white, very large, the finest 
single white variety. 
2116 Michel Buchner, double, pale lilac, margined with rose, very large pip and truss. 
2119 Monsieur Maxime Cornu, double, flowers large, rosy-lilac, shaded red, very free. 
2122 President Grevy, double, blue-shaded rose, large. 
2125 pyramidalis, double, pyramidal truss, dense, pale blue, carmine buds. 
2131 — — rubra insignis, pale rose-purple, fine flowers. 
2134 Souvenir de L. Spath, the finest of its colour, large bright red, not only in bud 
but also when open. 
2137 Verschaffeltii, rose, changing to white, splendid variety. 
2140 virginalis, fine, pure white, good forcing variety. 
Standards of the majority of the foregoing varieties can be supplied on 4 to 5 feet stems, 
with well-balanced heads at 3/6 and 5/- each. They make splendid objects for 
planting singly as specimens on lawns, or for shrubberies. 6 varieties of Lilacs, 
our selection, 3/-; larger, 5/-; 12 varieties of Lilacs, our selection, 6/-; larger, 10/6; 
25 plants, our selection, for 12/-; 50 plants, our selection, for 21/-; 100 plants, our 
selection, for 40/-, 50/- and 60/- 
See also special cheap offer of Syringas, Collection No. 46, page 79. 
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TAMARIX. Invaluable shrubs of graceful, feathery “ horsetail ” appearance, for planting 
near the sea; or inland, on dry, sandy banks, where hardly any other tall shrub 
would stand. 
2141 Germanica, a species of upright habit, producing white or rose-tinted flowers; very 
free. 6d., 9d. and 1/- each, 5/-, 7/6 and 9/- per doz. 
2143 gallica, (Common Tamarisk), branchlets extremely slender and graceful, with clouds 
of pinkish bloom in August and September. 6d., 9d. and 1/- each, 5/-, 7/6 and 9/- 
per doz. 
