The Pontiac Nursery Company 
Lilac, Marie Le Graye 
Philadelphus Virginalis 
Prunus Glandulosa 
NAMED FRENCH LILACS 
The named sorts are much superior to the old type of Common Purple and White, and they 
bloom when plants are much younger. 6 to 8 feet. 
ALPHONSE LAVALLEE. Flowers a bluish-lilac. 
BELLE DE NANCY. Double flowers of pinkish lavender. A good bloomer. 
CHAS. JOLY. Double flowering. Has dark wine-colored blossoms with silvery reverse. One 
of the very best. 
CHAS. X. Of exceptionally strong, rapid growth, with large, shining leaves and rather loose 
trusses of reddish purple flowers. Single. 
EDOUARD ANDRE. An early-flowering sort, with large spikes of clear rose flowers of irregular 
form. Buds darker. 
FRAU BERTHA DAMMANN. This produces the largest cluster of white Lilacs of the common 
species known in cultivation. Flowers of the purest white. 
GIRALDI, Purple Early Lilac. Exactly what its common name indicates. A great novelty, 
very dark and striking. 
JEANNE D’ARC. A double, white variety, always very showy. Excellent for cut-flowers. 
LUDWIG SPAETH. Dark purplish red flowers, large, and in long panicles. A distinct, superb 
sort that will give great satisfaction. Single flowering. 
MARC MICHELI. Clear lilac-blue, while the reverse of the petals are white. Very large spikes 
of enormous double flowers. 
MARIE LEGRAYE. Large panicles of white flowers; the finest white. Single. 
MME. ABEL CHATENAY. A very desirable variety, with milk-white, double flowers; panicles 
of medium size; very compact; fine for cut flowers. 
MME. CASIMIR-PERIER. White flowers in large, graceful panicles. A profuse bloomer. One 
of the very best sorts. Double flowering. 
MME. LEMOINE. A choice variety of the Lilac, producing long racemes of double, white 
flowers, lasting longer than the single sorts. A valuable acquisition. 
MICHEL BUCHNER. Clear pale lilac; double. 
MISS ELLEN WILLMOTT. A new double white of much merit. 
PERSIDENT GREVY. Large, beautiful blue flow r er panicles. Individual flowers very double 
and large. 
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA. Large panicles. One of the finest whites 
PHILADELPHUS—SYRINGA 
Also known as Mock Orange. Of vigorous habit, very hardy, with large, handsome foliage 
and beautiful white flowers produced in great profusion in June. They merit a place in every 
collection of shrubbery. 
ALBATRE. Bushy plant of medium height. Dense panicles of white, double flowers. 
CORONARIUS, Sweet Syringa. 8 to 12 feet. June. The old and well known Mock Orange. 
A graceful, upright bush with long branches covered with dark green foliage. In June com¬ 
pletely covered with showy pure white flowers of the most delightful fragrance. Probably the 
most fragrant of the class. 
CORONARIUS AUREUS, Golden Syringa. 3 to 5 feet. A compact shrub with bright yellow 
foliage which retains its color well throughout the season. Very effective in grouping as a 
contrast to the darker foliage of others. 
FAVORITE. Hybrid form of Lemoinei, large flowering, sweet scented. 
GIRANDOLA. Strikingly hadnsome variety, profuse in flower, 7 to 8 feet high. 
GORDONIANUS, Gordon Mockorange. Fragrant, white flowers. A vigorous grower and 
profuse though late bloomer. Height 8 to 10 feet. 
GRANDIFLORUS, Large Flowered Syringa. 8 to 12 feet. Very showy, large flowers, usually 
borne in threes. Scentless. It is of rapid grow'th with reddish bark. 
LEMOINEI. A small shrub rarely attaining a height of more than four feet. Branches slender 
and bearing in June a profusion of flowers closely resembling the orange blossoms in size, 
form and fragrance, which is very desirable. 
NIVALIS, Snowbank Mockorange. Large snow-white flowers. 
OPHELIA. Compact, very fragrant mostly double flowers. 
VIRGINALIS. A magnificent new variety. The bush grows moderately tall, with good foliage 
and compact habit. The flowers are the largest, handsomest, and most sweetly fragrant of 
any known variety, with longest blooming season. Grows 5 to 6 feet. One of the best of the 
Philadelphus. 
PHYSOCARPUS—NINEBARK 
OPULIFOLIUS, Common Ninebark. 14 ft. Huge, rapid growing, narrow when young, wid¬ 
ening with age. Small white flowers in June. 
OPULIFOLIUS AUREUS, Goldleaf Ninebark. A beautiful variety with golden-yellow 
foliage and double white flowers in June. 
PRUNUS—FLOWERING PLUM 
GLANDULOSA, Double Pink-flowering Almond. A vigorous, beautiful tree. Covered in 
May with rose-colored blossoms like small roses. Hardy. 
GLANDULOSA ALBIPLENA, Double White-flowering Almond. Same as above except 
blossoms are pure white. Extreme height 5 feet. 
1 RILOBA, Double Flowering Plum. 5 to 8 feet. A large shrub or small tree; the branches 
are covered early in the season, before leaves appear, with small, double, pink flowers. ^ cry 
desirable. 
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