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OUR EXHIBIT OF 



Water Lilies 

 a""* Aquatics 



at the 



St. Louis Exposition, 

 1904, 



received the 



Grand Prize 



A reproduction of copy of Report of 

 Judges appears herewith. 



{Cfpy.) 

 St. Louis, U. S. A.. 

 September 3d, 1904. 

 This Exhibit is very extensive and 

 most creditable, containing the best old 

 and new varieties of Water Lilies and 

 Aquatics, in very fine condition of growth 

 and bloom. As a whole, it is the finest 

 feature in the Ornamental Gardening 

 Department — worthy of the GRAND 

 PRIZE. 



Signed, RoBT Craig, 



Group Juror, 

 and indorsed by the entire Jury, as shown 

 by iheir signatures attached to the copy of 

 the report reproduced on this page, viz.: 

 Philippe de Vilmorin. 



Plead of the firm of Vilmorin & Co., 

 Paris, France. 

 Abel Chantenay, 



President of National Society of 

 Horticulture, France. 

 Jules A^acherot, 



Vice-President of National Society 

 of Horticulture, France. 

 Frank A. Kimball, 



Horticulturist, California. 

 AVm. R. Smith, Supt. Botanic Gardens, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Wm. a. Taylor. 



New 



Day=blooming 

 Tender Water Lilv 

 "Pennsylvania." 



a new hybrid that originated in the botani- 

 cal department of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and wW.ch is most aptly described as 

 an improved N. iidchei-rima, the flowers 

 being much larger in size and of a deeper, 

 richer blue, otherwise it possesses all the many 

 ffood points of that grand, free and continuous 

 flowering blue Nymphjea. 



Awarded a Silver Medal by the Newport 

 R. I. Horticultural Society, and Certificate of 

 Merit by the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society at Boston in September, 1904. $3.00 

 each. 



A»?t. Pomologist U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Washiiigton, D. C. 

 T.^FT, Professor of Horticulture, etc., 



Michigan Agricultural College. 



A Plant of Nymph.ba " Pennsvlv.\nia, " Showixg its Free-Flowering Character. 



We can furnish seeds of many of the Tender Nymphaeas and Nelumbiums. See page 105. 



