READ THESE SUCCESS LETTERS AND 
START YOUR OWN WATER 
©ARDEN ... NOW! 
H ERE is positive proof of the many rich rewards in joy, pleasure and beauty that 
you can reap from a Water Garden that need not be large or expensive. Read 
for yourself the unsolicited words of a few of our hundreds of satisfied cus¬ 
tomers, that rely on W. B. Shaw Aquatic Gardens for the finest and largest 
selection in the country of healthy, prolific water plants. 
L. Helen Fowler, the owner of W. B. Shaw Aquatic Gardens, is the daughter of 
W. B. Shaw, the founder. Mrs. Fowler has spent her whole life working, breeding 
and experimenting with water plants. She is one of the country’s outstanding authori¬ 
ties on water plants and their care and culture. L. Helen Fowler’s personal advice 
and attention to your problems will do much to make your Water Garden an out¬ 
standing success and a thing of beauty. 
GREAT SATISFACTION; 
LITTLE EFFORT 
Washington, D. C. 
L. Helen Fowler, 
Shaw Water Gardens, 
Washington, D. C. 
My dear Mrs. Fowler: 
I am sure that you will be interested to 
know that I am more interested in my 
Lily Pond than in any of the many other 
gardens it has been my pleasure to put 
together on our home grounds in Chevy 
Chase during the past several years. 
This, because of the rewards that have 
come during these years with so little 
effort. 
Since you installed the original plant¬ 
ing of these superb flowers, they have 
flourished and multiplied, producing their 
shows each season that have afforded us, 
our neighbors and visiting friends delight¬ 
ful surprises and joy in their ever depend¬ 
able, ever changing beauties. 
Thank you so much for your personal 
efforts and wide knowledge which con¬ 
tributed so much in achieving such highly 
satisfactory results. With best wishes for 
your continued, deserved success, I am 
Sincerely yours, 
Fred S. Lincoln. 
PLANTS ARRIVED IN 
FINE CONDITION 
W. B. Shaw, 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir: 
Fairview, N. C. 
I am very much pleased with the lilies 
I ordered. They were received in splen¬ 
did condition. 
Respectfully yours, 
Mrs. P. O. Merrell. 
VIGOROUS, HEALTHY PLANTS; 
VALUABLE ADVICE 
My dear Mrs. Fowler: 
Albany, Ga. 
Please accept my thanks for your letter 
which came yesterday. I cannot tell you 
how much I appreciate your going to the 
trouble of writing me in person and in 
long hand. 
For whatever I need in the future I 
shall certainly call on you. You have 
given me better service and better mate¬ 
rial than any other place I have patron¬ 
ized. I bought three lilies this year from 
a local dealer, one of which never came 
up and the other two have been slow. One 
was also an August Koch, started two 
weeks before the one I purchased from 
you, and has only four small leaves above 
the water and has not bloomed, while the 
one from you bloomed one week after 
planting. 
Later in the summer we hope to stop 
off in Washington and see your water 
gardens and choose a few lilies there 
for next year. 
I shall certainly tell of my pleasant 
experience with you when I attend the 
garden club meeting tomorrow afternoon. 
Respectfully yours, 
Jane Davant. 
ATTORNEY HAS 
THRIVING PLANT 
Columbia, S. C. 
W. B. Shaw’s Aquatic Garden, 
Kenilworth, D. C. 
Dear Sirs: 
I write to thank you for the fine water 
lily plant which I received from you as 
a prize in our spring flower show. It has 
been planted and is thriving. 
Yours truly, 
Wm. Elliott. 
THE W. B. SHAW AQUATIC GARDENS 
KENILWORTH, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
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