DUPUY & FERGUSON, 38 JACQUES CARTIER SQUARE, MONTREAL 
ZINNIA 
This is one of the finest summer flowering plants. The flowers are large, handsome, finely 
formed, and in great variety of colours. Seed sown early, under glass, will commence flowermg 
early in the summer and continue the whole season. They require but little attention, but 
plenty of room — should have at least eight inches each way; any common garden loam. Annual. 
Ferguson's Giant Zinnias 
We offer here six well fixed varieties of the true Giant Zinnia. 
These new plants are of extremely robust habit and tlirow up 
numerous long, firm stalks, crowned with enormous semi- 
globular, very double flowers; specimens measuring 5 to 6 
Inches across are by no means rare. 2H feet. 
Pkt. 
Giant Crimson ISc. 
Giant Flesh Colo ur . . . 1 5c. 
Giant Purple ISe. 
Mixed 15c. 
The above coUection of six separated colours, 75 cts. 
Zinnia Double Mexican Hybrids 
This new race makes little oval bushes not over 1 foot in 
height, which are literally covered througliout the summer with 
densely double beU-like flowers of various colours; cream, 
orange-yellow, red, etc. Pkt.. 15 cts. 
Pkt. 
Giant Pure White. . . .15c. 
Giant Golden Yellow. .15c. 
Giant Scarlet 15e. 
Ferguson's Double Large Flowering 
These indispensable garden annuals are now greatly improved. 
The plants form handsome, compact bushes 2 feet in height, 
with large, perfectly formed double flowers. 
Salmon-Rose. 
CrI mson 
Orange 
.Pkt., 10c. Yellow Pkt., 10c. 
10c. White lOe. 
10c. Purple 10c. 
Mixed 10c. 
One pkt. each of the above 6 separate colours, 50 cts. 
Assortment of 12 Double Varieties, $1.00. 
Lilliput Zinnias 
Uncommonly pretty, thickly branching, little plants, about a 
foot high. They fairly bristle with tiny, short-stemmed, very 
double flowers, hardly exceeding a large daisy in size. They 
may be used with success in pots as well as for groups and 
edgings. 
Scarlet Gem Pkt., 10c. I Golden Gem Pkt., 10c. 
White Gem 10c. I Lllllput Mixed.... 10c. 
OLD-FASHIONED HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
We offer on pages 71 to 77 a very choice list of new and scarce sorts as well as the best standard varieties. 
Smith No. 65 "Vapor" Bottle Sprayer 
MADE ENTIRELY of BRASS with BRASS BALL VALVES 
Cannot be excelled for spraying Garden Vegetables, Shrubbery, House Plants, Sprinkling 
Clothes and for Spraying Disinfectants In Public Buildings, Stables and 
Poultry Houses. 
The "VAPOR" .SPRAYER ma;y be used with any ordinary quart bottle such as is found in 
every household, l)y simply placmg it in the bottle as you would a cork, having the cork fit 
snugly in the opening of the bottle. Tiio bottle should be of such height so there will be one- 
fourth inch or more space between the bottom of the bottle and the .Sprayer. 
if the plunger, at any time, docs not work with ease, drop three or four drops of good oil in 
the little hole in the tube, directly under the lower end of cork, which will make it work free 
and easy. If it should ever become necessary to look at the plunger packing, slip the cork down 
on the tube and then with the hand unscrew the tulje from the cork cap and slip tite smati tube 
out. If the plunger requires repacking, remove the old packing and in its place wind a little 
candle wlcking or common white string, and it is again ready for use. 
The nozzle is adjustable for fine or coarse spray by unscrewing or tightening, as the case may 
be, the little piece inside of nozzle, or by entirely removing this piece, the nozzle will throw a coarse 
spray, thirty -or forty feet. Each $1.75. 
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