AN ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH COLORED BY ARTIST FROM FLOWERS 
The 
PINK 
WATER 
LILY 
of the 
FUTURE 
Special Price 
for 1935 
$2*50 
Delivered 
THE MRS. C. W. THOMAS 
Unusual Beauty, Delicacy and Charm Characterize 
this Triumph of Floriculture 
Announcement 
W E ANNOUNCE as the aristocrat of the Pink Water 
Lily Family our new and superb floral creation, the 
Mrs. C. W. Thomas, patent applied for, U. S. Patent Office, 
Series No. 482333, under date of September 16th, 1930. 
It lias ever been the aim of the owners of the Three Springs 
Fisheries to keep abreast of the times. It is only by new and 
novel discoveries and inventions that progress is made in any 
line of business. We, like all who are really interested in their 
line, are ever seeking for something more beautiful, more deli¬ 
cate, more lovely, more glorious, more fragrant, in a word for 
something better. All this, and more, we have in the Mrs. 
C. W. Thomas, which is the acme of water lily perfection. So 
much do we think of it that we have named it for and dedicated 
it to the memory of our mother. In addition, to protect our 
interests we have filed application for Patent, which is, the 
first application for a new lily filed under the new Plant 
Patent Laws. 
Two years ago every magazine of importance devoted space 
to the description of this new lily. 
Expert lily growers, botanists, etc., who have seen the Mrs. 
C. W. Thomas growing in our lily gardens the past Summer, 
have pronounced this new creation to be the most charming 
Pink Water Lily as yet produced. Thousands of visitors to our 
gardens the past season were fascinated by the unusual Beauty, 
Delicacy and Charm of this Triumph of Floriculture. 
Dr. Ball, expert botanist, formerly Principal Agronomist in 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, after viewing the flowers 
and plants in preparing a description of this lily for the appli¬ 
cation for Patent filed in the U. S. Patent Office, Washington, 
D. C„ says : “It exhibits certain charcteristics of the Odorata 
and Tuberosa varieties. It is a large flowered, free-blooming, 
long season, day flowering water lily with enduring, very fra¬ 
grant, partly double flowers of a shell pink color, or pale vina- 
ceous pink of the Ridgway Color Chart, with thirty-six petals 
when the usual Odorata has only twenty-eight petals Thus 
the Mrs. C. W. Thomas is not only the greatest achievement of 
the largest producers of lilies and goldfish in the world, but it 
is unique in being pronounced by experts as the Most Charming 
Pink Water Lily ever produced. 
Where there is a new variety of lily produced, there is only 
one root like it in the whole world and from that one root all 
others must be produced to supply the demands of the world for 
the new variety. Add to this the fact that the Mrs. C. W. 
Thomas can be procured through no other source and you can 
appreciate what demand there will be for this new lily of such 
extraordinary beauty and charm. We could easily have sold 
our entire output last season in a wholesale way and at a price 
even higher than we asked, but we were and still are anxious 
to get this superb new creation into the hands of as many of 
our customers as possible. With this thought in mind we have 
increased our output as much as possible. Last year orders 
were more than we expected, but with our increased acreage we 
are enabled to offer this newest of all lilies. 
Remember, orders will be filled in rotation, and we only offer 
them as long as they last. 
No flower so easy to grow as the Water Lily. No cultivation—no rake, no hoe, no water, just add enough to 
take care of evaporation. 
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