Grand-Duc Constantin

Lemoine, 1895

‘Grand-Duc Constantin’, S. vulgaris
Lemoine 1895; D III
syn. – ‘Grand duc Constantin’
Lemoine, Cat. No. 131, 10 [1895]; Kache, Gartenschönheit 5:82 [1924]; McKelvey, The Lilac, 309 [1928]; Wister, Lilacs for America, 49 [1942], 30 [1953]; Photo on Jorgovani/Lilacs 2015 DVD.
Named, perhaps, for Constantin I, king of Greece, 1861-1923.
Cultivar name presumed registered 1953; name established and accepted.

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Grand-Duc Constantin Lemoine, Cat. no. 131, X. (1895), ” Thyrses compacts, fleurs très grandes, serrées, couleur uniforme, lilas cendré, plante excellente pour le forçage.” Bellair in Rev. Hort. 1906, 323. — Möller’s Deutsch. Gärtn.-Zeit. XXII. 380 (1907). Havemeyer in Gard. Mag. xxv. 233 (1917).
Introduced in 1895 by the firm of V. Lemoine et fils, Nancy, France, and one of their productions.
Notes on plant in Arnold Arboretum (plant received from Holm Lea, Brookline, Mass., in April, 1913; no. 17,373 Arn. Arb.). Flowers double, large to extra large, unsymmetrical; corolla-lobes irregular in form, rounded or pointed at apex; tone intermediate to pale; color in bud Deep Purplish Vinaceous (XLIV.); when expanded Argyle Purple to Purplish Lilac without, Lobelia Violet (XXXVII.) within. Clusters compact, large, showy. The flower clusters are frequently produced from as many as three pairs of buds on the same branchlet.

“THE LILAC: A Monograph” Susan Delano McKelvey, MacMillan, New York, 1928