, With Blossoms so Large and so Beautiful One 
Rracn Can Hardly Imagine That They are Related 
FRENCH LILACS i 
When to Plant Your Lilacs 
Lilacs can be planted with perfect safety either in the spring or in the 
fall. If Lilacs are planted in the spring, they should go into the ground 
just as soon as the frost is out. In the fall we begin to send out our plants 
by the first of October and we continue to make shipments all during 
the fall and early winter months. 
Lilac Shortage iC ) 
Due to the extremely € ~ 
wet spring and summer, 
we lost thousands of our 
small plants. By 1953 our 
supply will be limited and 
a number of varieties will 
disappear from our list. 
Obra Soe 
S.—Stands for single florets. 
D.—Stands for double florets. 
S.D.—Semi-double. 
ALPHONSE LAVALLEE. D. Blue. Tall, robust growing; 
makes a very shapely bush. Panicles long, broad, 
shapely, and compact. Opens an intense blue, but as 
the florets develop it changes to a beautiful shade 
of lavender. Splendid sort. 
2 to 3 ft., $2.00; 3 to 4 ft., $2.50 
BUFFON. S. The very earliest of the early hybrids. 
Individual florets large and of fine substance. We 
think Buffon very choice. Color is a rich delicate 
mauve-pink of the finest quality. Panicles very large. 
We wish to impress upon our customers that if they 
are looking for a pure single pink, Buffon will not 
disappoint them. 2 to 3 ft., $2.50; 3 to 4 ft., $3.00 
CAPITAINE BALTET. S. Enormous trusses of single flowers of the greatest 
size. A uniform deep pink-lavender. A comparatively new variety not 
widely distributed but which by Lilac connoisseurs is pronounced one of 
Lemoine’s best singles. It is one of the most profuse bloomers of all, 
the bush sometimes being almost hidden by the great panicles. This is 
classed among the twelve or fifteen best of all Lilacs. 2 to 3 ft., $5.00 
CHARLES JOLY. D. Purplered. One of the best of the double dark 
reds, Bush medium both in size and height, limbs growing very up- 
right. Rather large blooms, held erect well above the foliage; very strik- 
ing. 2 to 3 ft., $2.00; 3 to 4 ft., $3.00 
CHARLES X. S. One of the older varieties that is still in great demand 
because of its profuse blooming qualities and also because it is one of 
the very best varieties of all for cut flowers. Blooms will stand perfect 
in water for a full week. A deep rose-red. 
2 to 3 ft., $2.00; 3 to 4 ft., $2.50 
DECAISNE. S. We think a great deal of this Lilac. It is most refined in Toms River, N. J. 
every way. Nice bush with clean foliage; large panicles very nicely : May 8, 1951 
formed, and many of them. A very delicate true rich blue. Rated by “The Lilacs, Olivier de Serres, DeMiribel, and Edith Cavell which 
many as the best. For real refinement in color this would, without doubt, you sent me in ’48 are in real bloom this year—just had to write 
be rated as one of the best of the single light blues. you to tell you how lovely they are. Now I will have to plant another 
2 to 3 ft., $4.00; 3 to 4 ft., $5.00 set for picking.” MRS tH aD aS: 
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