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Volume 1e VII February. 195 
Publisned b by the - UE TON NURSERY es - Tilae Ss Specialists 
Se pie Oe Spokane Aven Avenue _ ~ Detroit 4 = Michis yan 
SOME GOTO A iy ese 
Look at your garden a week or so after 
the French Hybrids are through blooming 
and what do you have? Often, not mich 


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of anything. Here. /S \ 1 where those According to a re- Vy seks 
late-blooming CON fe lilacs port by the Kansas Agricultural Ex- 
come in. Big, Pape . 5 vigorous, periment Station, on damage to top-= 



rapid growers, BEE heavy 


growth of shrubs, caused by a tempera- 
bloomers, and depen- ture of 519 below zero on January 4, 
dable ones, too; 1947, lilacs held up as follows: 
very showy when Severe damage: None 
in bloom; | “theyt11 Medium damage: None 
give your + yr Pa garden Light damage: S.chinensis (Tivos of 
a lift at just / ae the psycho- branches frozen) 
logical moment? H X B Cheek NO DAMAGE: S.amurensis, S.persica, 
the price list /—=— \ for the S.villosa and S.vulgaris 
sizes and ux Ee varieties (All French Hybrids are simply forms 
availabie “6 now; ask us of S.vulgaris) O.Xk. THEN = 
about others | coming later, STOP WORRYING? 
as fast as we can \ assemble a (Or at least stop worrying if you have 
stock of these new and 
useful shrub types? 
decidedly 
Something else 
some of our OWN ROCT lilacs.) (We might 
remind you that California Privet has a 
strong tendency to winterkill in severe 

interesting in the offing -- the new climates, and that almost all GRAFTED 
early blooming Dilatata Hybrids origi- lilacs have California Frivet under- 
nating in Canada --- one is already stock.) 
available, EVYANGELING, described on Sin FALE Wont aol, Cb ad oon faa 
page 2, but only afew plants ready wets «eR OO BOF oP aE 
now -=- more later; other varieties eer We PUDDING=- = 
will be coming along later, too! ae ' 
Or nn en nn nn nnn er. [) \  .OHTO: "Eager to pyets more 
in rt | fie Pag ; 7 47 1+ Ot toe. 
BORER TRO LIP Ri is ? / j/ of your fine lilacs 
From time to time customers write us to 
inquire about the best way 
nO —Letr rid’ oof’ bitac 
but wetll gladly send you 

WASHINGTON: "The 
lilacs received 
from you last fall 
were the finest ever seen in these 
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growth as thoush nothing had hapvened 
0 borerse Our accumulated parts” COLORADO:"All the lilacs I have 
\ oo a x know-how on this topic received from you through the years 
& 1 Ps takes more words than have survived the long shipment and 
ss 4 therets room for here, transplanting and have continued their 
ens , 
what information we have 
on this subject if you'll 
just write us for it. 
—— lL 
to them.” 
from us 10 times in 12 years.) 
ET LETTERS LIKE 
(This customer bought lilacs 
eeAND WE 
THIS ALL OF THE TIME! 
