24 BRYANT'S NURSERIES, PRINCETON, ILLINOIS 
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS — CONTINUED 
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 the 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 are 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 develop 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, 
often drown out the buds. 
In order to facilitate pricing, we have divided the Lilacs which we are offering 
into four price groups. 
For additional varieties of French Lilacs and Descriptive List and Color Classi¬ 
fication see pages 25, 26, and 27. 
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 
Named Varieties, 18 to 24 inches 
Named Varieties, 2 to 3 feet . 
Named Varieties, 3 to 4 feet 
Per 10 Per 100 
2.30 $ 20.00 
2.80 25.00 
3.75 32.50 
4.75 42.50 
12-18 in. 
Alphonse Lavalle . 100 
Charles Joly . 175 
Charles X . 350 
Congo .* 175 
Frau Bertha Dammann . 10 
Hugo Koster . 500 
Jeanne d’Arc . 115 
Ludwig Spaeth . 750 
Mme. Casimir Perier . 225 
Mme. Lemoine . 130 
Marie LeGraye . 80 
Maurice Barres . 250 
Miss Ellen Willmott . 300 
Mont Blanc . 100 
Paul Therion . 360 
Pres. Carnot . 145 
Pres. Grevy . 150 
Pres. Faillaires ... 150 
Waldeck Rosseau . 230 
18-24 in. 
60 
300 
290 
35 
425 
235 
350 
140 
150 
115 
150 
185 
25 
100 
90 
250 
50 
130 
2-3 ft 
10 
100 
85 
18 
360 
30 
200 
80 
100 
100 
35 
85 
130 
25 
200 
3-4 ft. 
10 
30 
65 
45 
20 
30 
30 
35 
110 
All orders are booked subject to our regular Terms and Conditions of Sale as printed on 
pages 2 and 3. These should be carefully noted as we cannot vary from them. 
