Lilaes 
Being entirely sold out for the season and also having covered them so thoroughly 
in previous volumes of G.A. we have little to say this time . We plan to hold our Annual 
Lilac Show here at the nursery in April and hope the removal of gasoline restrictions 
will make a large attendance possible. We shall display a collection of the world’s finest 
varieties, mainly French originations, as well as many of the best seedlings, named and 
unnamed, which we have developed in our own breeding program now in its 16th year. 

Lilac Si how will be held at the Nursery in 
April including at least one Sunday. Notice will be sent by 
postcard to all on our mailing list within 100 miles of San Jose. 
Upon request we will send card to any address. 

Magnolias 
With one exception these too are sold for the season. As a news item will men- 
tion that while at present it is our good fortune to have probably the best commercial 
collection of Oriental Magnolias in the U.S.A., conditions permit a resumption of our 
importing program and we have a few of the newest and rarest kinds coming from Eng- 
land this spring. 
All we can offer this spring is a limited number of that great rarity: 
M. campbelli (7). This grand Magnolia from the foothills of the Himalayas has 
been celebrated in horticultural literature for many decades, but owing to-dif- 
ficulty of propagation there have been only a few trees in the U.S.A. and none 
of these had been known to flower until the specimen in Golden Gate Park, 
San Francisco, bloomed in the spring of 1940. The flowers are rosy pink and 
are said to range anywhere from 8 to 14 inches wide. It prefers cool, moist 
conditions and here anyway does not like full sun when young. Balled 4 to 
5 ft. $25.00, 3 to 4 ft. $20.00, 2% to 3 ft. $15.00, pot grown 8 to 12 in. $3.50. 
Flowering Quinces 
Having little new to say about the Flowering Quinces this year we may as well 
tell “how they happened.” Almost exactly 20 years ago we were short of the old “Japa- 
nese Scarlet” and bought a few hundred to grow on. Mixed in were some seedlings, 
one of which attracted our attention because its color was unlike any Quince we had 
ever seen before. We then propagated from this seedling by grafting and called it Coral- 
lina. Further test proved it a very fine thing and apparently a sharp “break” in color. 
It soon occurred to us that this might be an excellent start toward breeding improved 
forms of this fine flowering shrub. Our guess was good as most of our finest varieties 
have this as one of their parents or grandparents. Hybridized with Chaenomeles cathay- 
ensis it gave the entirely new group of Cathayensis Hybrids as we called them. We now 
are down to the third generation of seedlings from the original cross and have many 
under test. We are also working on the straight “Superbas” which are themselves hy- 
orids. It is a very fascinating hobby for the writer of these G.A.’s and quite satisfactory 
from a business point of view. We might add that in the first European catalogs re- 
ceived since the war we were pleased to notice some of our originations being offered 
by nurserymen there. 
The only varieties still unsold as this goes to press are those listed below. Nearly 
all of them were fully described in G.A. ’44 which is still available on request. 
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