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Excerpt from 1930 Spring Catalogue, Rockmont Nursery: New or Noteworthy Plants, Including Mountain Flowers for the Rock Garden, Shrubs, Lovelier Lilacs, Iris, Phlox, Seeds These superb creations are marked by both single and double flowers, individually of large size and produced in very ample clusters. Their wide range of color, delightful fragrance, last ing texture and extended flowering season combine to increase the popularity of an old-time favorite. The Secret of Lovelier Lilacs. There are two nursery meth ods of propagating lilacs. One is to bud or graft on privet or other root stock; the other is by cuttings or layers to produce an own-root plant. Lilac bushes growing and flowering on their own roots are conceded to be the best. They will remain always true to type, and cannot produce sprouts of a different kind. They are long lived, have a perfect root system and bloom while very young. Years of satisfaction will many times repay your investment in this class of stock. The advocates of budded or grafted lilacs claim first, more rapid propagation, this is granted. Second, that grafted bushes will soon become own-rooted if set deep enough to cover the union. Unfortunately, this does not often result. If you want to buy grafted or budded lilacs - fine! But get it straight. If you are buying on the promise that they will become, sooner or later own-rooted bushes, then you are trading on a narrow margin. Study the picture showing root growth and decide for your self. At the center are two own-root bushes (charles Joly and Ludwig Spath) grown at Rockmont Nursery. Of the three bushes at the left, one is budded high up on privet, the others are probably grafted. I bought them three years ago; two are dead, the other has not bloomed. The two at the extreme right where from a wholesale nursery in Kansas, and were exactly as represented, grafted lilacs on privet roots. As is frequently the case, the top has overgrown the root and the plant will be short-lived. Only one other comment seems necessary. It is only fair in referring to my own-root bushes, grown at Rockmont Nursery, to give due credit to my inimitable soil conditions, and second, to our mile-high climate where a dry atmosphere and intense sunlight compel lilacs, in common with all other nursery stock, to produce an amazing growth of fibrous roots. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.