The 
H\k 
WATER 
LILY 
Special Price 
for 1937 
$2*50 
Delivered 
AN ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH COLORED BY ARTIST FROM FLOWERS 
THE AIKS. €. W. THOMAS 
Unusual Beauty, Delicacy and Charm Characterize 
this Triumph of Floriculture 
T HERE is no question that the Mrs. C. W. Thomas is 
one of the finest, most beautiful, and most fragrant of 
the water lilies. It is our superb floral creation. Patent for 
this lily was applied for under date of September 16, 1930, 
and was the first application ever filed under the new Patent 
Laws for patent on water lilies. 
It has always been the aim of the Three Springs Fisheries to 
keep abreast of the times. We, like all who are really interested 
in their line, are ever seeking for something more beautiful, more 
delicate, more lovely, more glorious, more fragrant—in a word, for 
something better. We have found this, and more, in the Mrs. C. W. 
Thomas, which is the acme of water lily perfection. We have named 
it for, and dedicated it to the memory of our mother. 
When this lily was first announced to the world in 1930, every 
magazine of importance devoted space to the description of this 
new lily. It is a lily so superb and so beautiful that you can not 
afford to be without it in your pool. Really no pool is complete 
without this one lily. 
Expert lily growers, botanists, etc., who have seen the Mrs. C. W. 
Thomas growing in our lily gardens, have pronounced it to be the 
most charming, the most delicate pink water lily as yet produced. 
Thousands of visitors to our gardens have been 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 application for Patent 
filed in the U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C., says: “It ex¬ 
hibits certain characteristics of the Odorata and Tuberosa varieties. 
It is a large flowered, free-blooming, long season, day flowering 
water lily with enduring, very fragrant, partly double flowers of a 
shell pink color, or pale vinaceous 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 water 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 demand of the world for the new 
variety. We believe that we have now reached the stage where we 
can fill any and all orders for this charming lily, which we may re¬ 
ceive. When it w r as first announced to the public, we were obliged 
to fill orders in rotation, as they were received, but we now believe 
that our stock is sufficient to take care of any and all orders. With 
this increased production, we are able to lower the price of this 
lily to $2.50 delivered, so that it is now within the range of any¬ 
one, who may want this very fine, very delicate, very light shade 
of pink water lily. 
!\o flower so easy to grow as the R ater Lily. /Vo cultivation —no rake , no hoe , no water ; just add enough 
to take care of evaporation. 
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