. Dreer's garden book : 1905. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. OUR EXHIBIT OF Water Lilies a""* Aquatics at the St. Louis Exposition, 1904, received the Grand Prize A reproduction of copy of Report of Judges appears herewith. {Cfpy.) St. Louis, U. S. September 3d, 1904. This Exhibit is very extensive and most creditable, containing the best old and new varieties of Water Lilies and Aquatics, in very fine condition of growth and bloom. As a whole, it is the fi
. Dreer's garden book : 1905. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. OUR EXHIBIT OF Water Lilies a""* Aquatics at the St. Louis Exposition, 1904, received the Grand Prize A reproduction of copy of Report of Judges appears herewith. {Cfpy.) St. Louis, U. S. September 3d, 1904. This Exhibit is very extensive and most creditable, containing the best old and new varieties of Water Lilies and Aquatics, in very fine condition of growth and bloom. As a whole, it is the finest feature in the Ornamental Gardening Department—worthy of the GRAND PRIZE. Signed, RoBT Craig, Group Juror, and indorsed by the entire Jury, as shown by iheir signatures attached to the copy of the report reproduced on this page, viz.: Philippe de Vilmorin. Plead of the firm of Vilmorin & Co., Paris, France. Abel Chantenay, President of National Society of Horticulture, France. Jules A^acherot, Vice-President of National Society of Horticulture, France. Frank A. Kimball, Horticulturist, California. AVm. R. Smith, Supt. Botanic Gardens, Washington, D. C. Wm. a. Taylor. New Day=blooming Tender Water Lilv "; a new hybrid that originated in the botani- cal department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, and is most aptly described as an improved N. iidchei-rima, the flowers being much larger in size and of a deeper, richer blue, otherwise it possesses all the many ffood points of that grand, free and continuous flowering blue Nymphjea. Awarded a Silver Medal by the Newport R. I. Horticultural Society, and Certificate of Merit by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at Boston in September, 1904. $ each. A»?t. Pomologist U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Washiiigton, D. C. T.^FT, Professor of Horticulture, etc., Michigan Agricultural A Plant of " Pennsvlv.\nia, " Showixg its Free-Flowering Character. We can furnish
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