Principal Variations in the Construction of Lilac Florets 

This tlustration by courtesy of Farr Nursery Company, Weiser Park, Pa. 
EXAMPLES OF ABOVE TYPES OF FLORETS 
Type 1: Christophe Colomb, Lucie Baltet, Macrostachya, Capitaine Baltet, Congo, Marceau 
(deeply cupped), Massena (wide petals but deeply cupped), Mme. F. Morel, Reaumur, 
Jan Van Tol, Mont Blanc, Vestale, Firmament, Glory (Night is similar, but petals 
not quite so wide). 
Type 2: Bleuatre, Decaisne, De Miribel, La Place, Ludwig Spaeth, persica, chinensis, josikaea, 
Diderot. 
Type 3: Jeanne d’Arc, Belle de Nancy, Pres. Fallieres, Waldeck-Rousseau, Comte de Monte- 
bello, Marechal Lannes, Adelaide Dunbar, Charles Joly, Mrs. Edward Harding, Henri 
Martin, Pres. Poincare. 
Type 4: Pres. Lincoln, Jacques Callot, Monge. 
Type 5: Edith Cavell, Ellen Willmott, Jules Simon, Leon Gambetta, Wm. Robinson, Katharine 
Havemeyer, Thunberg. 
Type 6: Mme. Casimir Perier, Emile Gentil, Jean Mace, Rene Jarry-Desloges, Leon Simon. 
Type 7: Mme. A. Buchner, Jules Ferry, Paul Thirion. 
Type 8: Pres. Grevy, Georges Bellair, Vauban. 
Some years ago John C. Wister (15), 
outstanding American authority on 
Lilacs, said: “* ‘Come down to Kew in 
Lilac Time,’ that beautiful poem of 
Alfred Noyes, ... had an effect its 
author never intended, namely to 
create the impression that to see lilacs 
at their finest one must visit Kew. . . . 
The truth is that our cold winters and 
hot dry summers are exactly what 
Lilacs like best. . 
‘“America—from Maine to Virginia 
and west to the Rockies—(and far up 
into the Colorado Rockies almost to 

timberline)—is the Lilac  paradise.”’ 
Part in parentheses is inserted by us. 
As this report of the first survey of 
Lilacs for Colorado comes to a close the 
leaves are turning on the plains and in 
the mountains—and the chrysanthe- 
mums are coming out to dare the 
autumn sun to die. It is time for fortu- 
nate Colorado gardeners who would, in 
the spring, have “Lilacs in their door- 
yard bloom,” to carry out plans they 
made last May for planting some. They 
have boundless wealth from which to 
choose. 
(15) John C. Wister, ‘““The Lilac Line-up for Gardens Great and Small,” House & Garden, Vol. 65, 
March 1934, p. 27. 
