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RE: purple lilac

Thanks for the information, Chris.  Do you have an address (or a
website?) for  Knight Hollow Nursery?


> ----------
> From: 	Christopher P. Lindsey
> Sent: 	Thursday, July 24, 1997 11:18 PM
> To: 	woodyplants@mallorn.com
> Subject: 	Re: purple lilac
> 
> > 	I have several of the dwarf Miss Kim lilacs and a Chinese lilac,
> > but I also long for just one full-sized lilac to grow as a specimen.
> > Since I only have room for one, I have a rather specific idea in
> mind
> > but don't know how to find just what I want. Maybe someone out there
> can
> > help . . . I am looking for a lilac that is very dark purple and
> > exceeding fragrant.  Does anybody know of such a cultivar?
> 
> Hi Susan,
> 
> Father Fiala (author of Timber Press's "Flowering Crabapples" and
> "Lilacs: The Genus Syringa") introduced a series of lilacs that
> are being propagated by Knight Hollow Nursery in Madison, WI.
> 
> One of his selections, 'Yankee Doodle', is a dark, dark purple on
> long, extremely floriferous panicles.  Because it originates from
> the common lilac, I imagine that the fragrance is strong, but
> I'm not sure.
> 
> Chris
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