French Hybrids 
Natural Color Photograph Congo 
Gloire de Moulins 
Adelaide Dunbar Vestale President Grevy 
These are the most popular modern lilacs. As sports and seedling 
variants of the old-fashioned Common Lilac (S. vulgaris) appeared, 
horticulturists selected and named them. Victor Lemoine of Nancy, 
France, began crossing some of these in 1870; from his first 100 crosses, 
yielding seven seeds that took six years to bloom, he went on to become 
one of the greatest of all hybridizers The firm of V. Lemoine and Son 
All of our lilacs are grown on their own roots 
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