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WATER LILY PARK is our new display grounds here at 950 Front St., Bingh 
with blooms up to one ft. across. We are located on the main highway, routes 
and Utica. Thousands of visitors stopped and gazed at our beautiful Gardens 



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Part of one of our large display ponds as 
seen from the main highway. Note the 
Wishing Well where several hundred 
visitors stopped to make their wish during 
the past season. Note the miniature 8’ 
lighthouse. Note 4 of the 5 huge rustic 
bridges, and the aluminum “‘Lover’s 
Dome” in the distance. Also notice the 
hundreds of water lilies displaying their 
Since this photo was 
taken another large display pool was built 
by a bulldozer, in the central background. 
Pink Sensation in foreground. 
glorious blooms. 
THE KIND OF PLANTS WE SHIP 
OUR CUSTOMERS! 
A section of our Orlyt greenhouse show- 
ing a large bed of Pamela in the fore- 
ground and Mrs. Edwards Whitaker in the 
background, just prior to shipping. When 
this photo was taken every plant had one 
or two blooms on it. It is a great delight to 
walk through our tropical greenhouses 
when the lilies are in bloom as they scent 
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the whole air with their fragrance. 
Here you see Mr. and Mrs. Slocum 
standing by their huge 16’ sign which 
stopped thousands of passing motorists 
this past season. We had visitors drive 800 
miles purposely to visit Water Lily Park. 

The coronation of a Junior and a 
Senior Water Lily Queen will be an 
annual event each summer. The coro- 
nation of the Junior Water Lily Queen 
in 1949 will take place on Saturday, 
July 2nd. The Water Lily 
Queen will be chosen one week later 
on July 9th. We hope to have a large 
Senior 
number of visitors and contestants 
present at these coronations. 





The 5 contestants who entered our Beauty Con- 
test for Water Lily Queen in 1947. Four judges 
selected the second from the right for the first 
Y Senior Water Lily Queen of America. 

