Show il Your Ow OwA own t Jt Ir Ms A AV FEW V LILAC PO POINTERS RS It If going to join that army ot of local gardeners Intent on making Salt Lake City the lilac city and Utah the lilac state you may be somewhat confused when It comes to to choosing the Y varieties of oC lilac you wish to buy this spring since all the descriptions In the catalogs are so ao attractive and alto also because prices o often t n of oC the very same vane vane- ties tle vary so so widely For Instance I have at my side now two catalogs in one of them several French hybrid lilacs are priced cents each In the other the very same varieties are listed at prices ranging from 90 cents centa to I 2 Naturally we aU all want to purchase pur- pur chase plants for our gardens at the biggest saving In cash but dOl do we save on the cent 40 shrubs Read every word of description accompanying accompanying the lilacs and you will perhaps perhaps per per- haps solve the riddle Y You u will ee that the cheaper plants are called budded The costly ones are own root beginner at gardening these terms mean little or nothing but they are extremely Important when the life of at the lilac iliac is con con- A b lilac Is one In which the top growth Is of the lilac named whether Charles the Tenth or Congo Cono or Katherine Haviland or any othe othe variety But the root Is either common lilac or privet or occasionally some come other shrub Pla Plants ts are budded because because- this method gives larger plants In a shorter short r time than I if a cutting o of the choice variety were taken Inserted In sand until rooted then grown on onto onto to selling size The budding system of at growing lilacs saves the nurseryman nursery nursery- man about two years and so so of course he can sell his plants cheaper than the man who only sells own root plants It If you buy a budded French lilac iliac you will readily see where the budding budding bud bud- ding was done there will be a sort of shaped knuckle joint just above the roots branch from the main one This joining should be beI I put very deeply below the surface of the soil In planting otherwise there ts is always the danger that suckers will be sent up from the common lilac or privet whichever was Vas used for root These suckers of course would not be the tine fine choice variety you thought you were buying but common lilac or privet and since an amateur could not always always al- al ways distinguish the difference at once the suckers might thrive and flourish and ch chOke ke out the fine hybrid variety before he knew it Some experts declare that in the case of a budded lilac the joint should be a foot below ground Add to this the fact that at least leut another toot foot would be needed below that to accommodate the root mass and see where you are by the time you get your hole dug Almost down downto to China These same experts de- de dare claro that only In this way can yoU yoube be sure no suckers wIll be sent up of the root stock Own root macs lilacs on the other hand have havo but the named variety you have purchased In their corn com position If they should sucker all shoots will be the same and will produce the same sort of at blooms They are believed to produce liner finer and more shapely bushes also In choosing French hybrid lilacs lilaC notice whether the catalog describes them as early or late bloomers bloomer The lists of all reliable growers give this information and by It you can have havea a selection of oC lilacs which will prolong pro pro-I long the flowering season several I weeks For Instance Charles the Tenth Is one of the very earliest of French lilacs to come Into bloom It has large single ingle flowers of a fine reddish lavender on the other hand blooms last of all fully four weeks alter after the early ones This last lilac is not a French hybrid hy- hy brid but Isa native of Hungary and produces enormous trusses of dark dark- lavender flowers It is one of at my favorites and Is always much admired admired ad- ad mired by those who come to see ray my lilac collection Dont Don't forget the Persian lilac when you are arc making out your list either This makes a grand bush tall and spreading and very shapely which is absolutely a a. mass of fra- fra grant rant reddish lavender early In the season often otten before beCore the common lilac iliac has opened Its first buds FolI Foliage Fo- Fo lI liage ge of at the tho Persian lilac iliac Is much smaller than that ot of the common sort or of the French hybrids The hybrid sorts sorta give wonderful changes of coloring You may have them In the lavenders but you may also find some which arc pure blue I others which are pink some that approach red and many In a a. rich deep purple besides white and cream Flowers vers also are double as aswell well fas single Remember these lilacs must absolutely be planted as earl early this sprIng as you can work the ground If they are arc to do well so get your order Into the nursery as soon loon as 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