LILACS 
Left, graft-blighted; center, own-roots; right, grafted on privet 
In the cut comparing root growth, two of our own-root 
lilacs are at the center; at the right are two lilacs grafted 
on privet, no roots above the graft; at the left are three 
bushes badly affected by gTaft-blight, not worth planting. 
For more than twenty-five years Rockmont Nursery has been growing, propagating 
and selling hybrid lilacs. No less than one hundred kinds have been tested. Many of 
these have been imported direct from French growers. 
Careful notes have been kept on all varieties and it has been our policy to weed 
out any that were not first class in every way. As this is being written men are 
grubbing and burning hundreds of old bushes of kinds we have never offered or no 
longer consider worthy of a place in our catalogue. 
This policy does away with long, confusing lists that require careful study and 
gives the purchaser assurance that any lilac chosen from such a list is a first class 
variety. 
We hope by another year to be able to offer such outstanding new kinds as Messana, 
Monga, Marceau, Mt. Blanc and others. None of these are for sale this year. 
We feel we must again impress on the purchaser of lilacs the very great importance 
of buying only own-root plants, propagated from sprouts or cuttings. This gives in¬ 
surance that your lilac will be a permanent thing, and will not in a few years wither 
and die from what is known as graft-blight. 
THE ABOVE PICTURE TELLS THE STORY 
