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background or specimen shrub. Very showy and floriferous. 
RUTILANT (Lemoine 1931) Panicles open, held erect; buds royal purple; 
blossoms brilliant reddish lavender; very striking and conspicuous. Fra- 
grance exceptionally lovely. A broad-leaved, compact, thrifty shrub. 
Sargent’s Lilac 
(Upton 1936) Single. An outstanding late blooming lilac. Bears a mass of 
delicate, lacy, violet-rose blossoms in graceful, open clusters. Compact and 
symmetrical; foliage large-leaved, dense. A profuse, unusually reliable 
bloomer. A seedling of a very beautiful but never positively identified lilac of 
the Arnold Arboretum, much admired by the eminent Charles Sprague Sargent. 
LILAC SPECIES 
These are the “wild” lilacs, many of them strikingly beautiful and differing 
greatly both in flower and foliage from the old, familiar sorts. They have come 
from southeastern Europe, from the vast expanses of China, from Japan, 
Korea, the Tibetan borderlands, the Himalayas. The majority of them have 
been discovered during the past fifty or sixty years by intrepid plant explorers, 
most outstanding of whom was the almost legendary E. H. “Chinese” Wilson. 
We have devoted many years to assembling a complete stock of authentic 
species from which to propagate. The list that follows contains all the lilacs 
recognized as distinct species by the Committee on Horticultural Varieties of 
The American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboretums. 
Many additional forms, or variants, of some of the species lilacs have been 
discovered from time to time. We are endeavoring to grow all the outstanding 
forms of proven worth; a number are included in this list. 
. AMURENSIS—See Tree Lilacs, p. 23. 
- AMURENSIS JAPONICA—See Tree Lilacs, p. 23. 
. CHINENSIS—See Chinensis Hybrids, p. 14. 
. DILATATA—See S. oblata dilatata, p. 19. 
- DIVERSIFOLIA—See Diversifolia Hybrids, p. 14. 
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S. EMODI (Himalayan Lilac) Reported growing wild in the famed vale of 
Kashmir, in Afghanistan, and throughout the northwestern Himalayas. The 
Western world first learned of it in 1831, in the days of the old East India 
All of our lilacs are grown on their own roots 
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