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must be something radically wrong. Are 
you sure they did not bloom ten years or 
more back and since then become a mass 
of suckers that impoverish the soil ? In 
the treatment of lilacs it is well to allow 
only enough suckers to grow that are 
needed to make a fair size plant and to 
allow the removal of the older main 
stems when they have become too 
straggly. Root pruning will often induce 
them to bloom. If your shrubs exhibit 
a mass of suckers, take them up next fall 
and tear or cut the roots to pieces and 
save young, healthy canes possessing 
good roots and replant them. If placed 
again in the same position, remove at 
least a wheelbarrow of soil from each 
hole and replace it with good soil. That 
from a cornfield, vegetable garden or 
even fresh loam from a pasture is best, 
and add some well rotted manure. 
If not a mass of suckers, you can root- 
prune by digging a trench around the 
stems close enough to cut a fair quantity 
of roots. If you do take them up, why 
not replace them with some of the finer 
lilacs now sold quite cheaply. Among 
the good varieties of the common lilac 
are Ccerulea superba (Ellwanger & 
Barry’s)—Charles X—Louis Van Houtte 
among the darker ones and Marie 
Legraye a white. Then there is the 
Hungarian lilac, Syringa Josika;a, of 
tree-like growth and S. villosa from 
Japan that blooms two weeks after the 
ordinary lilacs are through. 
Samuel H. French & Co., Philadel¬ 
phia, have issued neat folders setting 
forth the lasting qualities of their white 
lead and other products, which will 
prove interesting to any house owner 
who is about to have a house painted, 
either interiorly or exteriorly. The com¬ 
pany invite attention to their specialties. 
Paint Spirits and Safrin Durable Green. 
A request addressed to them will bring a 
copy of the folders which give full par¬ 
ticulars and should prove of interest and 
value. 
During July and August the Mag¬ 
nolia tripetala is at its best display. The 
conical seed pods are then ripe and are 
of a deep pink color. The beauty of the 
tree then is far greater than when it is in 
flower in May. In many ways it is the 
most ornamental of all magnolias.— 
Florists’ Exchange. 
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