WATER LI LI 
Only Johnson Can 
Supply Them 
PENNSYLVANIA 
GENERAL 
General Pershing is the shiningnltar 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 begin to grow at once 
endure 
hardy 
cold weather that will kill 
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 <ti 
planted it. Be sure and plant this for it is one I can N* 
personally recommend. 
GE 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-,- 
of other brilliantly colored tropicals >P | / O 
serves to intensify their charms. X 
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 _ _ 
Pennsylvania; have the fragrancce $ O 
of Mignonette. Terrific bloomers) 
iJUL 
TROPICAL 
A MAGNIFICENT FREE BLOOMING LILY 
BLUE TRIUMPH 
BLOOMING CONTINUOUSLY FROM MAY TILL FROST 
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 sizel 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 sate lv 
set out earlier than greenhouse plants and that they will be 
in full bloom before others get turned around. 
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, hay¬ 
ing only had experience with Tropi¬ 
cal Lilies from local dealers. Just 
one week after planting it blossomed 
and it has kepi 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. 
MARMORATA. Large, soft blue flowers that are 
delightfully fragrant. Blooms most freely and 
steadily with big 12-inch blossoms. The leaves 
are beautifully mottled. Two-year-old plants, $2.03. 
IMPORTANT NOTICE 
Tropical Water Lilies should not be planted too 
early in the spring. Rely upon us to send them at 
the proper time. I will not delay your shipments 
for I realize your desire to get them in at the 
earliest possible moment and we have the plants 
all ready weeks before. We ship to California and 
the South as soon as weather permits, farther 
north to St. Louis and Nashville about May 20th. 
To New York, Chicago and Portland, Oregon, to 
arrive about the first of June or sooner, depending 
upon the earliness of the season. If requested 
earlier we assume no responsibility for results. 
YOU ALSO WILL BE AMAZED AT THE 
SIZE OF THESE TROPICALS 
GOLDEN WEST POOL 
COLLECTION No. 26 
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 or Independence 
TWO-YEAR-OLD PLANTS. 
$050 
With 10 of the best Bog and Water 
Plants to complete the planting. 
COL. LINDBERG. An enormous blossom ot 
deepest blue and borne high above the water on 
tall graceful stems. A very free bloomer. A very 
beautiful flower and well worth the extra price 
asked for it. It is rare. Two-year-old plants. $2.50. 
INDEPENDENCE. A very free blooming lily with 
large dark pink blossoms that sometimes reach a 
foot in diameter. A great rosy saucer with a 
bright yellow cup. For a thrill, plant this beauty. 
$1.75. 
LOS ANGELES. A Johnson introduction for 1936. 
A new hybrid particularly noted for its extreme 
freedom of bloom. Flowers on slender graceful 
stems, brightly, silvery pink in color and very 
fragrant. The leaves are handsomely striped with 
red and brown. Two-year-old plants. $2.00. 
PAMELA. A beautiful, clear sky blue Lily of 
largest size. A splendid free blooming plant. The 
clear, turquoise blue is most attractive and the 
flower is richly fragrant. Gorgeous two-year-old 
plants. $2. 
Bloomed Next Day After Three Thousand Mile Trip 
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 1936 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 tneir great, 
deep blue blossoms incredibly as large as dinner plates. 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 <n 
foot across on one plant of Blue Triumph] At the left center is *P 
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 tor 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 journeyl 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 1 
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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