Prolong Your Lilac Blooming Season hy Planting 
SOME OF THE HYBRIDS AND SPECIES 
ALL VERY FINE 
NONE DISAPPOINTING 
A great deal of interest has been created of late by a line of new 
hybrid Lilacs coming to us from Canada, largely the work of Miss 
Preston of Ottawa. These hybrid Lilacs are proving very desirable here 
in Minnesota. They are hybrids of the Josikaea, Villosa, and the Villosa 
Reflexa, and like their parents they all come into bloom after the 
French Lilacs are through blooming. 
We have some 15 different varieties and have found them all good. 
They are somewhat similar and we have not decided as yet which are 
the best. We like them all and their slight variations add to their 
interest. They all grow into large, open branching bushes with large, 
heavy leaves like Villosa. 
Of Miss Preston’s new varieties we are offering for the first time 
Audrey and Desdemona. Besides these two hybrids we can supply Alice, 
Constance, Henri Lutece, Regan, Reflexa, and Viola. 
General description of all varieties: 
1.—All in bloom after the French Lilacs are gone. 
2.—They all come in large, open, plumelike panicles. 
3.—They all come in shades of pink and lavender. Some are light, 
some are medium, and some are in deeper shades of pink. 
4.—All are decorative and work nicely into bouquets of other flowers. 
Prices of all the above Lilacs: 
2 to 3 ft. size 3 to 4 ft. size 
Each $2.50 Each $3.00 
Any 3 for $7.00 Any 3 for $8.50 
All 8 for $16.00 All 8 for $20.00 

A Bush cf Gne of the Hybrids 
When visitors come to our nursery after the blooming season of 
the French Lilac is over, these hybrids are just at their best. They 
immediately attract attention, and we probably sell more plants to 
our visitors than we sell through our catalog. ‘Seeing is Believing.” 

OWN ROOT PLANTS 
We have experimented with the propagation of the French Lilac 
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for over 30 years to find how to grow it in a practical way on its own 
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roots. We have discovered how to do this successfully. Before we 
were able to do this we never had any success with French Lilacs in 
the Minnesota climate. We have never had any trouble with our French 
Lilacs dying out since. A French Lilac must be on its own root to do 
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well in a severe climate like that of Minnesota. 
Growing an improved Lilac on its own root is a slow process. It ac- 
tually takes us two years longer to produce a Lilac of a given grade on 
its own root than it would take to produce the same grade on Privet. 

Yet we insist on sending out only those Lilacs that will prove satisfactory 
so our customers can depend upon receiving only genuine own-root 
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