Long since deserted—yet the Lilac blooms on 
“Lilacs in dooryards 
Holding quiet conversations with an early moon; 
Lilacs watching a deserted house 
Settling sideways into the grass of an old road; 
Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom 
Above a cellar dug into a hill. 
"i’ou are everywhere.” 
— Amy Lowell 
The Lilac has been associated with the American home for generations. 
Washington planted it in his garden at Mt. Vernon, where its descendants 
still flourish. It traveled westward with the early settler and the covered 
wagon and established itself alongside the cabin door. Although a native of 
other lands, it readily adapted itself to its new environment and has now 
become part and parcel of American life. 
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