
GUARANTEE 
65 Years of Customer Satisfaction 
We guarantee to ship you only our finest, 
vigorous plants true to name and assume 
full responsibility that they reach you in 
a fresh and satisfactory planting condition. 
We will replace without cost any not so 
received if notified within 10 days. 
GROWTH GUARANTEED. If any plant 
fails to grow and we are notified within 30 
days we will replace same free of charge, 
customers to pay shipping charges only. 
At time of complaint remit 40c per Tropi- 
eal Lily, 15¢ for Hardy Lilies and other 
aquatics, to cover postage. To prevent any 
disappointment our replacements will be 
made of strong, free-blooming plants. Re- 
placements made free when additional 
plants are ordered. 







POOL ASSORTMENT 
Things You Will Need With a 
; New Pool 
COLLECTION No. G-S 
A group of accessories to make 
your pool a complete success: 
2 Ibs. Johnson’s Water Lily Fer- 
tilizer. 
1 Ib. Johnson’s Goldfish Food. 
10 Popular Oxygenating Plants. 
18 Pool Scavengers. 
SPECIAL 
GROUP PRICE..........00000 $ 3 00 


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PLEASE READ HEREIN OUR TERMS, 
Policies and Philosophy of Business. 
May We Say af this Point? 
We want you to have success with our 
products and have tried in this catalog to 
tell you, as our long experience has re- 
vealed, how to plant, use and care for the 
various items listed. May we say at this 
point that we realize thoroughly that only 
through your full success and consequent 
good will can we continue in business. We 
need your repeated orders and try to do 
everything possible to merit them. Our lo- 
cation is ideal for growing winter-hardy 
plants at their vigorous best. Experience 
of tens of thousands of customers through- 
out the United States and Canada shows 
conclusively that our plants thoroughly ac- 
climate themselves to all conditions with- 
out loss of time or vigor. This is an im- 
portant point and we ask you to compare 
both quality and price with any similar 
products. 
Our Shipping Dates 
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY 
When We Ship 
HARDY LILIES 
We ordinarily ship Hardy 
Lilies and Plants to warmer parts 
from March and April on. In the 
latitude of Chicago and New York 
from April 15th on. We will ship, 
on special request, any time dur- 
ing the year. 
TROPICAL LILIES 
These should not be planted 
too early for best results. 
To warmer South and south 
Pacific Coast from May lst on. 
Chicago and New York areas May 
25th to June lst. Too early plant- 
ing is time lost. 
BLUE TRIUMPH and Blue 
Beauty are somewhat hardier than 
other tropicals and we ship up 
to 10 days earlier. 

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TERMS 
We prepay postage on all orders of $1.00 
or more. 
Orders for less than $1.00 will not be 
sent postpaid unless 16c extra is included 
in remittance to cover packing charges. 
Te avoid confusion please use order 
blank attached. 
ORDER EARLY. Order immediately and 
you may leave to our judgment the proper 
shipping date. We are, of course, glad to 
ship on any date you specify. Promptness 
in shipping your orders as well as quality 
have built our business. . 
Please make all checks and money orders 
payable to Johnson Water Gardens, Hynes, 
California. If stamps are sent we appreciate 
denominations of 10c and 25c. 
NO PLANTS SHIPPED C.O.D. 
Owing to their perishable nature plants 
are not shipped C.O.D. 
HOW AND WHEN WE SHIP 
Our plants are all packed in specially 
prepared boxes by experienced packers. 
They are wrapped in waxed paper with 
damp moss and excelsior in such careful 
fashion that they retain their fresh grow- 
ing condition perfectly. In your pool, within 
a day after planting, they will appear as 
though they had never been transplanted. 
ALL OUR DELIVERIES ARE TO YOUR 
DOOR BY PARCEL POST. 
Parcel Post is by far the most efficient 
way to receive plants for it is speedy, 
careful, and obviates any loss of time by 
delivering directly to your door. 
DEALER’S PRICES. To qualified nursery- 
men, florists and dealers, we offer attrac- 
tive prices in any quantities, large or 
small. Wholesale lists are sent only when 
request is made on business siationery. 
How to Build a Pool 
My Little 
Book on 
Pools... 
If you have 
not built your 
pool this little 
; booklet will 
be of great help to you. Many 
pools that have been built by 
our customers are illustrated, 
which will give you a general 
idea of the various types. De- 
tail drawings showing how a 
pool is built as well as in- 
structions on how to mix the 
concrete, water-proof the sur- 
face, put in drainage pipes 
and other useful data are in- 
cluded. 

It is far safer and certainly 
cheaper to build your pool ac- 
- cording to time proved plans 
than to rely on the inaccura- 
cies of magazine articles 
whose authors have probably 
never built a pool. 
BOOKLET 
SEIN DEO ee tee eckons capes 1 0‘ 
tively constructed from clay. 
If you have a heavy, sticky 
clay soil you may easily con- 
struct a serviceable pool by 
excavating to a depth of 2 
feet and thoroughly puddling 
the wet clay by tamping toa 
depth of 6 inches. When fin- 
ished it should be just about 
as watertight as concrete if 
thoroughly puddied. 
If your soil is not clay you 
may achieve the same results 
by hauling in a 6 or 8 inch 
layer of good, gummy clay. 
TUB GARDENS 
A large barrel (50 gallon 
pickel barrels are fine) cut in 
half will make two nice tub 
gardens when partly filled 
with soil and sunk in the 
ground. No. 3 galvanized 
washtubs may be used also. 

ORAS® 
Comne 
Pools are very simply built, the principal thing to remember being 
to have them about 2 feet deep, which allows a foot for the boxes or 
soil in which lilies are planted and 8 to 12 inches of water. Such a 
pool will give optimum results, though of course pools much shal- 
lower or much deeper are perfectly satisfactory. About 12 hours 
after the concrete is poured it may be water-proofed by painting it 
with pure cement mixed with water to the consistency »f cream. 
The pool may then be filled with water and left for a week or so 
to cure. 
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