22 BRYANT’S NURSERIES, PRINCETON, ILLINOIS 

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. Unfortunately there are a number of 
the more popular varieties, particularly among the dark reds, which we are no 
longer able to offer for shipment during the Spring of 1944. 
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 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. There is of course quite 
a little difference in how long it takes for the different varieties to go onto their own roots but 
any of our plants which have been grown in the field two years after transplanting are at least 
started on their own roots. 
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 al- 
most invariably 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 devel- 
oped 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 develop 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 cEuas 
into four price groups. 
Since we do not store Lilacs and since they must be dug within the first two 
or three weeks after the frost leaves the ground in the Spring if they are to be 
handled in a perfectly dormant condition, we are seldom able to fill orders for 
Lilacs received after April first. 
For additional varieties of French Lilacs and Descriptive List and Color Classi- 
fication see pages 24, 25, 26 and 27. 
FRENCH LILACS - GENERAL LIST 
Per 10 Per 100 
Named. Varieties; 12° to 1S -incheseat2=s eee ee eee $ 2.60 $22.50 
Named. Varteties,. 18 to’ 240 mches see ee eee ee eee a2 27.50 
Named “Varieties, 2° tous icete i see meee ee ee ee 3.80 35.00 
Named’ Varieties; 3: to 4 feet@2 2 ee ee ee ee 4.75 42.50 
Named Varieties, 4toaseteet seen eo ee ere ee ee a3250 50.00 
12-18 in. 18-24 in. 2-3 ft. 3-4 ft. 4-5 ft. 
Alphonse Lavallee =.= aa — : 225 200 — 
Charles “Xt eee eee 150 200 225 200 60 
Congo) 455... 150 125 200 150 35 
De’ Groncels- ee Ane —— — 50 200 25 
Edouard Andree.) ee = —: 250 100 — 
Ellen> Willmotts. 222. eee 250 370 350 50 -—— 
Frau. Bertha Dammang 3 ~- as 7p) 100 — 
Jeanne diAtc: 2222. eee — 30 150 200 ie 
Marechal” Lannes = 253 a eee —-- 30 50 30 — 
Marie. Léerayes <2 ee ee —— 100 150 150 75 
Maurice (Bartes 220 eee “50 50 200 125 — 
Mime Casimit: Perier. = 2 2 = Be, 100 150 250 75 
Mme. Lemoine 222-2 See 50 — 200 75 = 
Mont Blanc’. ee ee — 50 275 af 5 —— 
Paul*-Therion? =>. See eee 150 125 — a, ie, 
Pres: Carnot: — 20 ee —- 50 150 200 75 
Pres. Fasllaires 2.7 265 2 ee 50 50 25 — — 
Pres. (Grevy.. Gis2oeee ee — 30 75 100 — 
Waldeck Rosseau. 2. — 100 225 250 
