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In her later years Isabella received dozens of awards, places of honour at
conference banquets, and invitations to speak. One of her most treasured
tributes came in 1956, when colleagues and friends in the North American Lily
Society established the Isabella Preston Trophy. The sterling silver trophy is
still given each year to the best lily stalk in the society’s show.
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Isabella Preston became known throughout the horticultural world in spite of
working in a professional field that was dominated by men, and in an era when
most women did not work outside the home.
Isabella Preston died in Georgetown, Ontario in 1965.
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Introduction