Descriptions of the 
WORLD’S BEST LILACS 
Double Varieties 
CHARLES SARGENT. Mauve and blue. 
Enormous clusters. 
*CLAUDE BERNARD. Light mauve 
lilac. Flowers an inch broad; petals wavy; 
clusters large; growth very vigorous. 
Bears a second crop two weeks or so 
after the first. 
CONDORCET. Almost pure blue. Best 
double of its color. 
GEORGES BELLAIR. Buds red; flowers 
purple. Probably our most profuse bloom¬ 
er, but so slow growing as to be almost 
dwarf. 
HIPPOLYTE MARINGER. Light pur¬ 
plish mauve. 
JEANNE d’ARC. Easily the best double 
white. 
KATHERINE HAVEMEYER. Buds 
mauve opening lilac blue. Flowers large. 
Clusters on long stems. 
LEON GAMBETTA. Lilac. Blooms early, 
freely and for a long time. Keeps well 
after cut. 
MARECHAL LANNES. Pinkish mauve. 
Individual flowers exceptionally large. 
Semi-double. 
MAXIMOWICZ. Violet heliotrope becom¬ 
ing blue. Clusters long and very large. 
Semi-double. 
MRS. EDWARD HARDING. Rosy car¬ 
mine. Took a special prize as best “red” 
lilac. A fine variety, but we may be color 
blind. 
MY FAVORITE. Mauve blue. Orginated 
by Mrs. Klager, and probably the only 
American variety in our list at present. 
PRES. FALLIERES. Lavender. Its enor¬ 
mous compound clusters are largest of 
all. 
PRES. POINCARE. Claret mauve. Clus¬ 
ters large and compact. Flowers large 
and very double. 
*VAUBAN. Mauve pink. Large compound 
clusters. Very free blooming and delici¬ 
ously fragrant. 
Single Varieties 
*BUFFON. Mauve pink; large clusters. 
Exceptionally fine for cutting. 
CAPT. BALTET. Buds purple; opens 
lilac. Heavy bloomer. 
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. Buds 
mauve; flowers pure blue. Exquisite. The 
best single blue to date. Grows very 
slowly. 
DE MIRIBEL. Violet. Clusters elongated. 
Very late. One of the fine dark varieties 
but a slow grower. 
DIDEROT. Buds almost black; flowers 
dark purple in narrow leafy clusters up 
to a foot long. Very late. 
DR. BREITSCHNEIDER. Pure pink. Dif¬ 
ferent type from all our others as it 
blooms on the new wood after most of 
regular type are out of flower. 
DR. LINDLEY. Color lilac-purple like 
“old-fashioned lilac.” Very well liked. 
EDMOND BOISSIER. Dark bluish purple. 
Clusters like Diderot. 
JAN VAN TOL. Snow white. Probably 
the best single white. 
*LAMARTINE. Mauve pink. Very large 
compound clusters. 
*LOUVOIS. Violet purple tinged blue. 
Good color; free blooming; fragrance 
rich; very early and in bloom for a long 
time. 
LUDWIG SPAETH. Dark purple; late. 
An old-timer that we keep growing on 
account of demand although we have 
better darks. 
*MIRABEAU. Mauve opening bluish. 
Earliest of all. 
MME. FRANCISQUE MOREL. Reddish 
purple in enormous clusters. Possibly our 
best single. 
MONT BLANC. Snow white. Very frag¬ 
rant. 
PERLE VON STUTTGART. White. Very 
profuse bloomer and carries clusters well 
above the leaves. 
REAUMUR. Carmine purple; late; good 
grower. 
RUHM VON HORSTENSTEIN. Buds 
purple; flowers lilac, very fragrant. 
VOLCAN. Buds deepest imaginable 
purple. Flowers dark purple with no 
shading whatever. Large loose clusters 
usually paired. Was a sensation at Oak¬ 
land Spring Garden Show. The very 
darkest purple while De Miribel is the 
darkest violet. Very late. 
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