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NEW HYBRID LILACS, continued 
Among the shrubs in every old garden, the Lilacs, or Syringa, have always been the chief feature, 
admired by all and universally loved for the many old associations and tender sentiment woven about them. 
Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y., has the largest collection of Lilacs in America. They form one of the 
chief attractions there, and it is stated that last spring fully 175,000 people came to see the Lilacs in High¬ 
land Park, many excursions bein^ run from distant points for that purpose. There is a similar collection of 
Lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum, in Boston, also visited each year by many thousands, showing the intense 
popular interest taken in them. 
In my new specimen grounds, I have started a similar collection, and look forward with keen anticipa¬ 
tion to a ‘‘Lilac time” in Wyomissing that will be well worth a visit. 
Our gardens have been wonderfully enriched during late years as the result of the work of the late Victor 
Lemoine, of Nancy, France, who was probably the world’s most skillful hybridizer. Among the many species 
and varieties of plants for which we are indebted to him are the many wonderful new Jhybrid Lilacs, the 
beauty of which can be appreciated only by the^ comparatively few who have seen them. The large, single 
flowers of some of the varieties are almost an inch in diameter; there are many double and semi-double 
varieties, some with elegantly twisted and curled petals, others perfectly formed, reflexed, and incurved. 
Some are borne on tapered panicles a foot in length, while others are much branched, forming huge bouquets. 
The season of bloom has been prolonged by the addition of earlier and later varieties. The colors range 
from pure white, cream, pale azure-blue, and lavender, to deep blue, purple, and dark blackish maroon. 
All are delightfully fragrant, and much more prolific bloomers tnan the common kind, which blopms freely 
only after attaining considerable age, while young plants of the new hybrid varieties, 2 to 3 feet high, bloom 
profusely. All are equally as hardy in every section of the country as the older common kinds. 
It has been very difficult to obtain these varieties on their own roots, the new varieties usually offered 
in this country being budded on privet, which renders them short-lived, or grafted on the common Lilac, 
the suckers from which soon smother out the graft. For these reasons, budded Lilacs are of little value, 
unless they are budded so low that, by deep planting, they may eventually become established on their 
own roots. 
The new Lilacs I offer are all own-root stock, the only satisfactory kind. The demand for these is so 
great that it has been impossible to work up a stock of very large-sized plants, and those^ we offer, with a 
few exceptions, are medium sized, varying in height from 2 to 4 feet, according to variety. Where the 
purchaser is not particular about the variety, but especially wishes large plants, I can usually supply them, 
if the selection is left to me. 
Double-flowered Lilacs 
ABEL CARRIERE. Large; blue; quite new. $2. 
ALPHONSE LAVALLE. Recently introduced 
blue-violet variety. $2.50. 
ARTHUR WM. PAUL. Large trusses of beauti¬ 
fully formed flowers; bright crimson, reverse of petals 
white; very effective. $1. 
BELLE DE NANCY. Brilliant satiny rose, white 
center; a fine variety. $1. 
CHARLES SARGENT. Immense panicles; 
flowers an inch in diameter; violet-mauve, shaded 
metallic-azure; extra. $2.50. 
CHARLES JOLY. A very beautiful bright crim¬ 
son; extra. $1.50. 
CLAUDE BERNARD. New. Tall-growing; large 
trusses of double and semi-double bright mauve-lilac 
flowers. $3.50. 
COLBERT. Large; dark purple-crimson. $1. 
DAME BLANCHE. New. Pure white. $3.50. 
DES FONTAINES. New. Lilac-mauve flowers, 
tinted parma-violet. $4. 
DEUIL D’EMILE GALLE. Compact trusses, 
with very double, large flowers; light carmine, buds 
purple. $1.50. 
DR. TROYANOWSKY. Enormous panicles of 
mauve flowers. $2. 
EDMOND ABOUT. New. Very floriferous; 
flowers in big bouquets; a handsome, tender Iilac- 
mauve. $1.5( 
ETOILE DE MAI. Very large; crimson-violet, 
reverse of the petals white. Early. $1. 
GORDON. A new variety with lilac-blue, white- 
centered flowers. $3. 
HIPPOLYTE MARINGER. New. Large, com¬ 
pact trusses; large individual flowers, with curled 
petals; purplish mauve. $3.50. 
JACQUES CALOT. New red-violet variety. 
$3.50. 
JEANNE D’ARC. Fine, large-flowered white. 
$2.50. 
JULES FERRY. Large panicles; flowers silvery 
mauve, rose-carmine buds; late-flowering. $2. 
JULES SIMON. Very large flowers and trusses; 
lilac-mauve, passing to pale azure. $3. 
LAMARCK. Very large panicles of rosy lilac 
flowers. $1. 
LEON GAMBETTA. Immense trusses; indi¬ 
vidual flowers very large, nearly an inch in diameter; 
lilac-rose. A magnificent variety; early-flowering. 
$3.50. 
LOUIS HENRY. New violaceous pink. $2.50. 
MARC MICHELI. Beautiful lilac, reverse of 
petals white. $1. 
MARECHAL DE BASSOMPEIRRE. Dark 
carmine-rose. $1. 
MAURICE DE VILMORIN. Extraordinary 
sized panicles; flowers azure-blue, with white 
center. $1.50. 
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