Volume Viit ee 1951 TER a: ~Hatber One 
Published by the UPTON NURSERY COMPANY, 8 pokane Avenue, Detroit 4, Michigan 
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Here is our brand new catalog -- and we hone you like it! Wetve done our best to 
make it as informative and helpful es we could. But please remember. 
THIS CATALOG IS 
SOMETHING TO KikP. “We don't put out a/new issue every year. But when we do print a 
catalog it's a BETTER one ~ with descriptions as|meticulously accurate as we can 
make them and with fine natural color photographs to show you, insofar as it is hun- 
anly possible, just what many of our lilac varieties actually look like. 
i To keep you 
up-to-date on the latest in lilac items, of course, there’s Lilac News and our fegu- 
lar Rpeeoned Price List, kis ig ana twice @ yeare. 
. ome varieties listed in this cat- 
alog for the first time are ones that we expect to have in good supply later, but of - 
which we have only a very limited stock at present. We're always glad to put your 
name on our Waiting Lists for such varieties, so that you can have them just as soon 
as they are available. 
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A WORD) FOR COMPOST + ——— ees a 
Best pepper-upper for lilacs occasionally, ince a bit YZ A) 
that we lmow is good, old- _ ‘of one of those compost- saul 
fashioned compost worked in- activators on it - a number ae 
to the soil before planting are advertised in garden cos 
and around the base of the magazines ~- and let Nature 
plant in after years when it do the rest. The bottom 
has become established. of the pile will yield some 
Any- pretty fancy lilac food in a 
body can have a compost pile. | few months! oa 
Some go into it ina big way, At our nursery wa 
with an inch of this and an compost is made in big eee: “ 
inch of that, so much water, pits, and everything goes an nea Snrceshy Heh 
a thermometer to check tem- stale wsnieelee are ~ literally - ~—. inst rae 
perature - BUT = you can get last year's birds! nests?! Date 
some mighty fine stuff just A big heaping shovelful of the finished product 
by piling up grass clippings is Ggumped into each hole as lilacs are set out in 
ana weeds, tea grounds and the field ~ and how they do go for it! Yhen we 
._ what-have-youe Make the pile dig those bushes\up they are full of fine, fibrous 
flat on top, slightly sloped . roots with bits of compost still clinging to then, 
on the sides, wet it down and THOSE are the fine-rooted lilacs we send YOU? 
