Partial X'ieiv of our Tender Water Lily Pond 



Aquatic Department 



Many of our friends and 

 customers who have seen 

 =^=^===^==^^^^^^=^ our displays of Water 

 Lilies and Aquatics at the various Expositions during recent years, 

 and particularly at St. Louis in 1904, where our Aquatic exhibit 

 was conceded to be the one grand feature of the Horticultural 

 Department, and for which we were awarded the Grand Prize, will 

 appreciate this specialty of our business. 



We first offered this class of plants in 1884. A small cement 

 basin 10 by 25 feet, supplemented with a few half-barrels, was 

 ample to propagate and grow all that we required at that date. 

 These facilities were extended each season until finally in 1905 

 we began our present extensive Aquatic or Water Lily gardens, 

 which cover about eight acres. These are located in what was at 

 the time a low, marshy piece of ground on the banks of the Dela- 

 ware river, which formerly produced nothing but rank weeds, 

 malaria and mosquitoes. The same spot is now one of the most 

 interesting features of our Nursery, and is enjoyed by thousands of 

 visitors each season. And as the simple conditions under which 

 they can be grown become better known, we expect that many now 

 unsightly wet, waste places will be turned into Lily ponds, enhanc- 

 ing the beauty of the landscape. 



An erroneous impression which we occasionally hear when 

 the making of a Water Lily pond is suggested, is the danger of 

 possibly providing a breeding place for mosquitoes. 

 A very few gold fish, in fact a few fish of any kind, will Unpacking 



keep a large pond absolutely free from these insects. Imported Plants 



Unloading a trainload of Imported Plants on the siding close to our Nurseries at Riverton, N. J. 



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