A new cultivar of Syringa reticulata, `Bailnce`, characterized by its heavy and consistently annual blooming habit, its ability to produce blooms on young plants, its dark green leaves, its vase-shaped plant habit with horizontal branching, its essentially sterile flowers, its hardiness in U.S.D.A. Zones 3 to 7, and its trouble free culture with suitability for planting in residential, park, and commercial areas.