PENNSYLVANIA 
GENERAL 
General Pershing is the shining star among pink Tropical 
Lilies. It has mammoth blossoms of dinner plate size raised 
well above the water on stiff stems. See color illustration 
at left above. Until you grow our Two-Year-Old Plants you 
will never know how gorgeous this Lily can be. My vigor¬ 
ous Full-of-Bloom plants being to grow at once 
and endure cold weather that will kill SO25 
less hardy ones. £* 
TWO YEAR OLD 
PINK PEARL 
This has been one of my most popular plants. It is a 
very heavy bloomer and the big silvery pink blossoms 
thickly cover the plants for months. They are exceptionally 
large and unusual with their pure white throat. I have 
increased our plantings of it this year to several hundred 
for it has proved so very floriferous and has attracted so 
much attention from all those who have seen and m m 
planted it. Be sure and plant this for it is one I can 4> / 
personally recommend. “ 
H. PRING 
A fine, free flowering pure white Lily pro¬ 
ducing great quantities of huge blossoms often 
reaching a foot across. The tapering petals 
give it a most attractive, starry effect and 
when planted among the blue and pink (CO 
of other brilliantly colored tropicals 
serves to intensify their charms. ““ 
TWO YEAR OLD 
MRS. EDWARDS WHITAKER 
A gigantic, sky blue Tropical often reaching 
13 or more inches in diameter. The flowers 
open out flatly like enormous Delft blue 
plates. They are of an exquisite soft caerulean 
blue paler than Blue Triumph or nAnr 
Pennsylvania; have the fragrancce *9 
of Mignonette. Terrific bloomers! 
BLUE TRIUMPH 
A MAGNIFICENT FREE BLOOMING LILY 
My Two Year Old 
PENNSYLVANIA 
T HESE glorious Two-Year-Old Tropicals are the greatest innovation 
in Water Lily culture ever brought out. Only those who have 
struggled with the ordinary, month-old, pot raised, greenhouse 
plants can appreciate what my big Full of Bloom Tropicals mean. 
Just think! Each of these heavy, many crowned plants, has already 
produced scores of foot-wide blossoms, not one or two inch flowers, 
but armfuls of real dinner-plate size! When you receive them they 
are crowded with buds, leaves and flowers and are already to start 
the new season. Each plant has many crowns, (they average from 
5 to 7), and every crown produces its own flowers so that a single 
plant is a veritable riot of color. They are far hardier than any plant 
grown in a greenhouse can be because they are growing here in 
outdoor pools and have been subjected to freezing temperature during 
winter. They are not coddled for they do not need it. It is only 
possible to produce them here in Southern California where the win¬ 
ters are mild. Whole pools of them are here ready to be shipped as 
soon as your season is open. Remember that they may be safely 
set out earlier than greenhouse plants and that they will be 
in full bloom before others get turned around. 3* V 
SPECIAL POSTPAID PRICE. 
Blooming in Two Days 
Dear Sirs: April I, 1935. 
The Blue Triumph and Panama 
Pacific were the outstanding attrac¬ 
tions of my water garden last sum¬ 
mer. They were blooming within 
two days after planting. The gor¬ 
geous color of the flowers, huge and 
fragrant blossoms were admired by 
all who saw them. There were in¬ 
numerable quantities of flowers all 
season. I certainly urge everyone to 
plant these two Lilies. I want to 
thank you for the wonderfully strong 
plants you sent me. Yours truly, 
GEORGE H. STATEN, Alton, III. 
A Happy Experience 
Dear Sirs: June 20, 1935. 
I received the Blue Triumph Lily 
the first week in June and was 
amazed at the size of the root, hav¬ 
ing only had experience with Tropi¬ 
cal Lilies from local dealers. Just 
one week after planting it blossomed 
and it has kept it up continually 
with from three to five blossoms 
daily. To say I am pleased with it 
is putting it mildly. The enclosed 
photo was taken not long after 
planting. See photo at right. 
MISS EMILY L. MORRIS. 
Hamden, Conn. 
Flowers in Two Days 
Dear Mr. Johnson: March 2, 1935. 
I had most grand success last year with your two-year- 
old Blue Triumph and also General Pershing. The Blue 
Triumph, after its arrival and placing in the pool, within 
a matter of a couple of days, bloomed, and with that 
General Pershing as well, bloomed from early arrival until 
the frost killing period. Very tru | y y0 urs 
EUGENE CUSTARD, Elmira. N. Y. 
Why Plant My 2-Year-Old Tropicals? 
The instant success of my wonderful Two-Year- 
old Tropical Water Lilies has induced us at con¬ 
siderable extra expense to raise thousands of 
these big vigorous plants. Here are the points 
in which they definitely surpass pot-grown green¬ 
house plants. 
1. One leal is as large as a whole pot plant. 
2. Number of Flowering Crowns. 5 to 7 for 
Blue Triumph and Pennsylvania. Pot Plants 
have ONLY ONE. 
3. Earliness of Bloom. They bloom at once. 
4. Hardiness. They easily stand chilling. 
5. Size of Flowers. As big as plates! 
YOU ALSO WILL BE AMAZED AT THE 
SIZE OF THESE TROPICALS 
GOLDEN V/EST POOL 
COLLECTION No. 138 
With these splendid two-year-old plants you 
will have flowers at once, bigger and more beau¬ 
tiful than you ever dreamed of. We give you 
your choice of blues. 
1 Pennsylvania or Blue Triumph 
1 General Pershing cr Independence 
TWO-YEAR-OLD PLANTS. 
With 15 of the best Bog and Water 
Plants to complete the planting. 
$4 
$550 
5 Blossoms at once 
July 30, 1935. 
Dear Sir: 
I bought your Blue Triumph last month largely because 
of the splendid record it had had with other people, as 
mentioned in several testimonials in the catalog. I'd like to 
add my praises. I was late about ordering my Lily. It 
came June 15 and early on the morning of the 17th it 
had a bloom, and has not been without one a day since. 
Today there are five big blossoms, which is not at all 
unusual. 
MARY N. H. POWERS, 
Henderson, Tenn. 
CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE-GROWN 
TROPICAL LILIES 
All our Tropical Lilies are planted outdoors ir. 
big concrete pools in the spring and during the 
summer months are cared for as carefully as 
your choicest flower beds. Here they develop 
into strong, vigorous plants blooming profusely 
and storing energy to start them into active 
growth during April and May of the following 
year. Pot plants have no proper rhizome in which 
food can be stored but our 2-Year-Old Plants 
develop a large one somewhat like a hardy Lily 
which completely guarantees their vigorous 
growth. 
Bloomed Next Day After Three Thousand Mile Trip 
HUGE PLANTS WITH FROM 5-7 CROWNS 
My Two Year Old 
BLUE TRIUMPH 
G ROW this queen of Lilies with perfect success even though you 
have never grown Water Lilies before. You need never fear 
that they will die or go dormant when you plant them simply 
because the weather turns cold. No other nurseryman can give you 
this assurance because greenhouse grown plants are only a few 
weeks old when you receive them and are in no state to stand un¬ 
favorable conditions in your pool or inclement weather. Have these 
gorgeous flowers in full bloom before those purchased elsewhere are 
even started! All during the summer of 1935 these husky plants have 
been blooming and thousands of people have visited our gardens to 
see them. They are a sight worth traveling far to see with their great, 
deep blue blossoms incredibly as large as dinner plants. During the 
second year the plants split up into many crowns each of which 
blooms just as freely as the mother plant. Pot plants never have 
more than one crown and thus can never approach 2-Year-Old plants 
in quantity of flowers. I have counted a dozen blooms each a m 
foot across on one plant of Blue Triumph! At the left center is 
a photograph showing just such a plant. SPECIAL PRICE. 
More Than Pleased 
Dear Sirs: April 16, 1935. 
I am enclosing two snapshots. This 
was our first pool and we were more 
than pleased with the result. We 
wish to thank the Johnson Water 
Gardens for the splendid Lilies 
shipped to us. The Blue Triumph 
was in bloom the day after it was 
planted in spite of a three thousand 
mile journey! You will see it bloom¬ 
ing in the center of the pool. The 
hardy Lilies were equally satisfac¬ 
tory and all have survived the win¬ 
ter. See photo at left. Yours truly, 
GLADYS A. MEYER, 
State School 
Belchertown, Mass. 
A Real Test 
Dear Sir: October 2, 1935. 
This spring I received a 2-Year- 
Old Blue Triumph from you. As I 
live on the north shore of Lake Su¬ 
perior where our short summers are 
noted for their coolness I was very 
doubtful as to whether it would 
bloom. I was very pleasantly sur¬ 
prised for the plant bloomed con¬ 
tinuously, several blossoms at a time 
and was the main attraction in my 
pool and garden. I shall have more 
of them next year. Sincerely yours, 
DR. F. W. DOERR, Duluth, Minn. 
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