20 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 vari- 
eties 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 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 into 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 teft too long on Privet roots are apt to develop a ‘‘graft blight’’ resulting from 
insufficient union with an overgrowth of the root stock by the scions. 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 21, 22, 23 and 24. 
FRENCH LILACS - GENERAL LIST 
Per 10 Per 100 
Named Vatieties,-12-to- £8 vinchesosce se $ 3.00 $ 27.00 
Named “Varieties, “18 +to ae nches ee ee ee 3.60 32.50 
Named *Vartéties® 2 "10-73 heer weet ee a teat ee eee ere 4,25 37.50 
NamedVarieties, 3.toe4etect ante ee ee ee ee 5.00 45.00 
Named V atieties: 4 (10 23 efeet artis eet ee ee ree ee 6.00 55.00 
12-18 in. 18-24in. 2-3 ft. 3-4 ft. 4-5 ft. 
AlphotiseeLaval leew mere pees cee eee eee a — 175 250 50 
Charles ax) 20.2 2 roy Se aaa eas oe ees a ee ee 100 150 100 340 70 
Congo a ee ee eee 350 400 100 120 50 
De- Crontelsi ee 2 en ee ee 50 40 110 80 — 
Edouwsatd.” Andre: 53a ee ee 140 7S) 150 125 10 
Ellen’ Wallmott > =e eee ee er de 100 = 250 400 50 
Frau. BerthasDam mattis | eee = ao 100 80 10 
Hugo & Koste ts ite ste see ae a es a eee 150 100 250 200 120 
J EaNte ec MC ee eats aa eee ee 120 30 150 27D — 
Marechal Lannes 4 <3, 4 eae at oe 30 30 80 50 — 
Marios Le gta yl s kei tee ee ea ee eae a — 100 200 —- 
Maurice “Battes ¢ 224 piece cee eek ee ee 50 250 250 100 Soa: 
Mme sGasimit © Petiermet arteries —- — 110 200 125 
Mine..:Lemoinet.2 = 25a ee eed 1p 100 150 — 40 
Motta Bia Cie oe ree a ee 60 175 200 125 40 
Prése Cacnotiie eee eee eee ee ae eee os 30 110 120 100 
Presi Palli@rese, 0's ee ee Pee Eee eee 50 =a 60 50 1S 
Press Gatewy oon eel ee ee eee ee 550 240 — — — 
Rhumes Von ehlorstenste tise se ge eee 100 250 180 — _ 
Waldeck-Rosseait wee es eee — 80 as 140 30) 
William 2Robinson 25s ee 100 225 100 aaa > 
Prices quoted are for wholesale quantities. Orders calling for less than five of a variety an: 
size are not wholesale and can be filled only as outlined on page 2. 
