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BRYANT’S NURSERIES, PRINCETON, ILLINOIS 
FRENCH LILACS 
For a number of years we have been specializing in the growing of French 
Lilacs and are propagating from a long list of varieties covering a wide range of 
color and form, a list that contains the better and more popular of the older varieties 
as well as many of the newer and finer types. ^ 
OWN-ROOT Plants:—The Lilacs which we offer here are own-root plants. Our French 
Lilacs are propagated by grafting on small pieces of Privet root, not by budding on Privet or 
Common Lilac. The grafts are then planted deep, both in the bed and when transplanted to the 
nursery row. When grown in this manner thiC Privet acts as a nurse root for the Lilac scion un¬ 
til such time as the Lilac can develope its own root system. When that is accomplished, it soon 
overgrows the Privet and the Privet dies off—in fact on some varieties we are even able to re¬ 
move the Privet root when transplanting from the beds into the field. 
Own-root plants have the marked advantage over budded plants in that they arje perfectly hardy 
and therefore much longer lived, and that all of the sprouts from the roots will be true to variety. 
Many nurserymen propagate French Lilacs by budding above the ground on California Privet, or, 
tho much less frequently, on Common Lilac stocks. Plants budded on Privet are almost invari¬ 
ably short lived unless* the plant is set low enough in the ground when transplanted so that the 
Lilac can develope its* own roots, a type of planting seldom accomplished with developed plants 
even by persons who understand the necessity for deep planting. If planted at the normal depth 
the plants are not root-hardy, as the tender Privet is apt to kill off during severe winters. Plants 
left too long on Privet roots are apt to develope a "graft blight’’ resulting from insufficient 
union with and overgrowth of the root stock by the scion. Buds' on Common Lilac, on the other 
hand, are root-hardy and make a good union, but the root stocks invariably sprout. Such sprouts, 
being hard to distinguish from the budded variety, and also usually being of stronger growth 
ott^en drown out the buds. 
FRENCH LILACS — GENERAL LIST 
We can furnish small quantities of 
some 
varieties and 
sizes 
not included 
in the 
following quantity lists. 
Named Varieties, 12 to 18 inches . 
Per 10 
2.30 
Per 100 
$20.00 
Named Varieties, 18 to 24 inches . 
. 2.80 
25.00 
Named Varieties, 2 to 3 feet._.... 
. 3.75 
32.50 
Named Varieties, 3 to 4 feet . 
. 4.75 
42.50 
Named Varieties, 4 to 5 feet . 
.. 
. 6.00 
12-18 in. 
18-24 in. 
2-3 ft. 
3-4 ft. 
4-5 ft. 
Alphonse Lavalle . 
50 
125 
90 
20 
5 
Charles Joly . 
250 
100 
35 
20 
— 
Charles X . .. 
120 
135 
80 
15 
— 
Emile Lemoine ... 
50 
120 
160 
55 
— 
Frau Bertha Dammon ... 
30 
40 
40 
40 
20 
Frau Wilhelm Pfitzer . 
10 
15 
_ 
Hugo Koster . 
450 
360 
250 
210 
— 
Jean Mace ... 
135 
85 
30 
50 
17 
Jeanne d’ Arc ... 
175 
115 
85 
40 
10 
La Mauve ... 
15 
75 
80 
40 
— 
Ludwig Spaeth . 
430 
330 
250 
30 
— 
Mme. Casimir Perier . 
35 
100 
300 
90 
— 
Mme. Lemoine ... 
125 
180 
125 
10 
— 
Mme. Leon Simon ... 
60 
75 
75 
25 
5 
Marie LeGraye ... 
25 
85 
215 
40 
15 
Maurice Barres . 
100 
95 
45 
35 
— 
Michel Buchner ..... 
200 
360 
315 
125 
_ - 
Miss Ellen Willmott ... 
150 
150 
60 
— 
— 
Mont Blanc ... 
15 
25 
40 
35 
10 
Mrs. McKelvey . 
20 
10 
50 
20 
— 
Pres. Carnot .. 
65 
75 
140 
90 
30 
Pres. Failleires . 
70 
90 
50 
85 
10 
Pres. Grevy . 
90 
250 
465 
120 
10 
Waldeck Rosseau .. 
90 
240 
190 
15 
— 
All orders are booked subject to our regular Terms and Conditions of Sale as printed on page 
2. These should be carefully noted as we cannot vary from them. 
