LILACS 
SYRINGA, LILAC. H5. Last year we promised to describe and offer the very latest 
varieties originated in Europe and which we have imported under government permit. 
Although available stock is still very limited we might as well get them “on record.” 
NEWEST VARIETIES 
The following ten varieties, excepting Gen. Pershing and Hugo de Vries, were all ori¬ 
ginated by the world’s greatest breeder of Lilacs, Lemoine at Nancy, France. 
PRICE SCHEDULE 
B 3 to 4 ft.$4.00 
C 2 to 3 ft. 3.00 
D 1V 2 to 2 ft. 2.50 
El to iy 2 ft. 2.25 
Letters after varieties indicate sizes available. 
*AMI SCHOTT—BCDE. Double; dense panicles of broad cucullate flowers, deep cobalt 
blue with paler reverses; a superb novelty. 
*DIPLOMATE—BCDE. Single; huge bunches of well-shaped regular flowers, cobalt 
blue shaded mauve, center pale lilac, buds light purple. 
*ETNA—CDE. “Broad panicles of medium sized, regular single flowers. Late. Deep 
claret purple; probably the nearest approach to red.”—Lemoine. 
* FIRM AMENT—CDE. Single; immense panicles of large regular flowers of a beautiful 
shade of sky blue, truly a gem among blue varieties. 
*GEN. PERSHING—CDE. Double; flowers of quite unusual size, broad lobes of rich 
purplish-violet with paler undersides, big purple buds, late, very showy. 
*HUGO de VRIES—DE. Single; dark purple. Flowers large in long clusters. Said to be 
a great improvement on Ludwig Spaeth. Excellent for forcing. 
*MARECHAL FOCH—CDE. Single; bright carmine rose becoming mauve. Flowers 
over an inch across. Clusters up to a foot long. Some consider this the 
best single Lilac to date. 
*MASSENA—CDE. “Strong upright spikes; flowers single, over one inch broad and of 
the deepest purple red.”—Lemoine. A M. R. H. S. 
*MONUMENT—CDE. Single; very big and compact trusses of creamy white flowers. 
A very showy novelty of an unsuual floriferousness. 
*PRODIGE—DE. Single; this novelty carries good trusses of immense flowers, measur¬ 
ing fully one-and-a-half inches in breadth, of a deep purplish red. 
SPECIAL LIST 
Includes scarce and slow-growing varieties; also species and those originated here. 
PRICE SCHEDULE 
A 4 to 6 ft.$3.50 
B 3 to 4 ft. 2.50 
C 2 to 3 ft. 1.50 
D 1 y 2 to 2 ft. 1.25 
ei to iy 2 ft..1.00 
Letters after varieties indicate sizes available. 
Origin Various 
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS—DE. A most beautiful single blue variety with large 
flowers of exquisite color and form but a very slow grower. 
LA PLACE—C. Single; claret-violet; clusters large and showy. 
LUCIE BALTET—BCDE. Entirely unique. Flowers single, purplish-red in bud, cop¬ 
pery old-rose when expanded. Precocious and free blooming. 
PRESIDENT LINCOLN—DE. Single; buds purple-lilac opening to wedgewood blue. 
A highly esteemed variety of American origin. 
SUNOL—DE. This is merely a provisional name for one of the finest doubles we have 
ever seen. Buds are purple, open flowers blue. Extent of doubling is 
astonishing; we have counted over 40 petals on one flower! Richly fragrant. 
VESUVE—E. Single; probably darkest of all Lilacs. Slow grower. 
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