LILACS 
MONT BLANC Pure white. Large, well-branched panicles of enormous 
flowers with round lobes. Considered the most beautiful of all single 
white lilacs. Showy. 
MRS. W. E. MARSHALL Deep purplish crimson. This form does not fade 
as rapidly as some of the other dark lilacs. 
NECKER Rose pink flowers, one of the earliest. 
PASCAL Pure lavender in color. An exceedingly floriferous sort. 
REAUMUR Flowers extra large, color dark to intermediate, when fully 
expanded eupatorium-purple. Clusters long, well filled. 
REINE ELISABETH White. When in bud sea-foam green. Clusters extra 
large, well-filled, pyramidal. 
ROCHAMBEAU Dark purple-red with pronounced margins of pale pink 
without. 
RONSARD Bluish lavender, marked with much white at throat. Blooms 
early about the same time as S. hyacinthiflora. 
RUHM VON HORSTENSTEIN 
TURENNE Purplish-violet, flowers extra large. Clusters long, almost 
pyramidal, symmetrically filled. 
VESTALE Handsome white variety, the flowers resembling in form those of 
Mont Blanc. 
VILLARS Tall branches, long panicles, large flowers, pinkish mauve fading 
to pale lilac. 
SPECIES and HYBRIDS 
CHINENSIS Purplish lavender shaded with light pinkish lilac without, 
Bishop s purple within. A spreading shrub, as broad as tall. 
CHINENSIS METENSIS Pale pinkish lavender. 
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