Lilacs: The Genus Syringa [Paperback]

As many lilac fans know, this is a great reference work on Syringa. -- International Lilac Society Website, January 2002

[This] book is still the best – and in some ways the only – substantial reference book on lilacs available. -- Lilacs : The Quarterly Journal, Spring 2002

Father John L. Fiala devoted 10 years to this book, a unique treatise that is both a scholarly monograph and a personal tribute to the beauty of lilacs. Since going out of print, it has become almost impossible to obtain at a reasonable price. Sometime in the future a revision and expansion of his work will appear, but in the meantime we have released this facsimile paperback reprint in response to extraordinary demand. It includes the 398 color photographs from the first edition and makes Fr. Fiala's work again accessible.

Father John Fiala (1924--1990) parish priest, high school principal, college professor, also found time during his long and busy life to enrich the horticultural world through his work as a scholar and plant breeder. As a midwesterner, his two great enthusiasms were the genera Syringa and Malus.