ETEAC SPECIES 


S. VULGARIS ALBA (White Common Lilac) The old-fashioned white lilac, 
first appearing in European gardens early in the seventeenth century. 
S. WOLFI (Wolf Lilac) A very hardy shrub coming originally from the 
mountains of Korea and Manchuria and first reported about 1910. A broad, 
symmetrical plant with dark green leaves. It blooms late, bearing attractive 
lilac-purple blossoms in great profusion. An excellent species, still little known 
in American gardens. 
S. YUNNANENSIS (Yunnan Lilac) A slender, graceful shrub with flowers 
of pale purplish rose. Found in Yunnan Province, China in 1887 by the 
Abbé Jean Marie Delavay of the Missions Ktrangeres. 
TREE LILACS 
S. AMURENSIS (Amur Lilac) Grows 
in the Amur River country of North- 
east Asia, where it was first found by 
two Russian travellers in 1855. Makes 
an attractive small tree bearing very 
large, long, showy, graceful panicles 
filled with dainty ivory-white flowers 
with conspicuous yellow anthers. Buds 
greenish yellow. Leaves large. Very 
hardy. S. amurensis blooms later than 
any other species. 
S. AMURENSIS JAPONICA 
(S. japonica) (Japanese Tree Lilac) A 
variety of tree lilac first reported about 
1875 and a native of Japan. Makes a 
very shapely, round-topped tree. It 
blooms slightly later than S. amurensis; 
the blossoms are similar, but the 
clusters are a little broader and denser.. Very robust and floriferous. 

Japanese Tree Lilac 
S. PEKINENSIS (Pekin Lilac) A large shrub or small, broad tree, dis- 
covered in North China in the late 1850’s. Leaves long and slender; blooms 
white, very lacy and showy and borne in great profusion. 
All of our lilacs are grown on their own roots 
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