Autumn List RICHARDS’ GARDENS he n 

Lilacs 
The only satisfactory way to grow lilacs is on their own roots. Beware of cheap 
lilacs grafted on privet or S. vulgaris understocks; they’ll bring you nothing but grief. 
All RICHARDS’ LILACS are on own-roots—a slow and costly method of propagation but 
the only way ‘to get the fine plants you want. 
HYBRIDS, AMERICAN AND FRENCH— 
_ Hiawatha. First of a new race of frost-proof lilacs, originating in Canada’s northern- 
most nursery. Blooming season is early June, weeks after ordinary lilacs have finish- 
ed, which makes them practically immune to our late freezes. The blooms, of waxen 
texture, come in heavy panicles of pure, deep rose-pink, an entirely new and utterly 
entrancing color tone in lilacs. Foliage is large, luxuriant and heavily crinkled; the 
bush itself is non-suckering yet a husky grower. 3-4 ft. $4.00. 4-5 ft. $5.00. 5-6 ft. $6.00. 
Charles X. Single ; buds dark red, blooms reddish-purple. 
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Ktna. Single; full clusters of deepest elaret red. 3-4 ft. 3.75. 
Katherine Havemeyer. Double; cobalt-blue flushed mauve. 4-5 ft. $3.75. 5-6 ft. $5.00. 
Lutece. Single; very late; violet-purple.. 3-4 ft. $3.75. 
Ludwig Spaeth. Single; deepest crimson. 4-5 ft. $38.75. 
Mme. Casimir Perier. Double; dwarf; creamy white. 1%%-2 ft. $1.50. 2-3 fet. $2.25. 
Pres. Grevy. Double; very fragrant; nearest to true blue. 3-4 ft. $0.00. 4-5 £t. $3.75. 
SPECIES LILACS— 
Persian Lilac (S. rothomagensis). Foliage texture and habit of growth make this 
variety especially suited to planting on the small place. Does not sucker; mature 
height only 8 to 10 feet. Its reddish-purple flowers are borne in enormous clusters 
and in the greatest profusion from the ground up. -Ideally suited to specimen plant- 
ing, massed shrub border planting and for tall, informal hedges. 
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Cutleaf Persian Lilac (S. persica laciniata). Very rare and interesting variety of the 
above. More open habit; dainty, palmately-lcbed foliage is carried on arching 
branches. Panicles are long, but not so full, and the color is distinctly blue toned. 
2-3 ft. $8.00. 3-4 ft, $4.25. 
Late Lilac (S. villosa) large, tall growing. Crinkled foliage. Blooms vary from pale 
rose through shell pink to almost white. 2-3 ft. $1.50. 3-4 ft. $2.00. 
Common Purple Lilac (S. vulgaris) 2-3 ft. $1.00. 3-4 ft. $1.50. 4-5 ft. $2.00. 
Common White Lilac (S. vulgaris alba). 2-3 ft. $1.00. 3-4 ft. $1.50. 

EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS 
Spruce, pine, cedar, juniper species of all kinds do better from au- 
tumn planting. Prices for autumn planting are the same as quoted in 
our Spring list. 
In spite of steadily increasing ccsts our evergreen. prices have heen 
__ held at the low levels of 1943, and, in sharp contrast to any manufactured 
article, quality standards have been maintained at high pre-war levels. 
