DUPUY 8c FERGUSON, 38 JACQUES CARTIER SQUARE, MONTREAL 
Musk Melon 
One ounce will sow about 70 hills 
" Delicious " Musk Melon.— o„°We^ 
Ions ever introduced. The plant is robust and free 
growing and bears liandsome fruit 10 to 12 lbs. 
which when ripe, are a beautiful cream color, with 
bright salmon colored flesh that is very thick and of 
exquisite flavor. Pkt., 25cts. A selection from 
Montreal Market. 
Montreal Improved Nutmeg— .y^Hety 
grows to a large size, beautifully netted and deeply 
ribbed, flesh light green, melting and of exquisite 
flavor. The best melon in cultivation. Our stock 
is true and was grown here under glass from selected 
fruit. Full cultural directions with every order. 
Per pkt., 15 cts.; oz., 75 cts. 
Unnoir Daw The dclicious honeylike flavor 
noney u»cw. jjjjg melon has met with 
instantaneous public flavor and created a sensation 
wherever used. The fruit is of large size, weighing 
eight to ten pounds each. The rind is perfectly 
smooth and cream colored. The flesh is from one 
and one-half to two inches thick, light green in color, 
very sweet and juicy. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; 
H lb.. $1.00. 
Gold Lined Rocky Ford.— J^^P^ery 
sUghtly ovai, no ribs and it is heavily netted over the 
entire melon. The bloom button is small and flesh 
as thick at the end as elsewhere. The melon is thick 
meated, flne grained and sweet: colour green with a 
gold margin next to the seed cavity. Pkt., 10 cts.; 
oz., 30 cts.; !4 lb.. $1.00. 
Early Hackensack.-fn 'X^HTclensack": 
producing melons of as good quality and fuUy 10 
days earlier. Large fruit, with tWck green flesh of 
the finest flavor. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz,, 25 cts.; J4 lb., 
75 cts. 
Petoskey or Paul Ro^e.-^J^^: f^XTcl.°d 
melon and of excellent quality. TJie vines are vigorous ajid 
productive. The fruits are oval, slightly ribbed and densely 
netted. In general appearance they are much like Netted 
Gem but larger. The flesh is orange yellow, very thick Arm, 
sweet and highly flavored. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; M ID., 
MiMeV's Cream.— Skin dark green colour, slightly netted 
Flesh sahnon colour, sweet and dehcious flavor. A remarkable 
keeper One of the best salmon-fleshed Melons for shipping. 
Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; H lb., 75 cts. 
Montreal Improved Nutmeg Melon. 
Rocky Ford. — Very early, flesh light green, very popular sort. 
Per pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts ; H lb., 75 cts. 
Sutton's Superlative Forcing.-gr.f "if^'^o^" 
round and very handsomely netted. Flavor unsurpassed by 
any other Melon in cultivation. Flesh scarlet, merging into a 
beautiful green tint near the skin, and so thick that the fruit 
is practically without a cavity. Occasionally a green-fleshed 
fruit of the same high quality is found. Plant robust in 
habit and sets its fruit with unusual freedom. Pkt., $1.00. 
WATER MELON 
One ounce will plant 
60 hills 
a hill; when the plantsare well up. thin out to three. Cultivate 
until the vines cover the ground, and pinch the ends ol tne 
growing shoots to induce early fruiting. Seeds should 'not 
be put into the hills until the weather becomes settled and 
warm. 
r-^l-'o ParUr A flne variety for the family and market, 
\^Qie s c^ariy. ^^^^ jg particularly adapted on account of 
its earliness to Northern latitudes. The bright red flesh is 
cool, crisp and sweet. The Melons are of medium size, and 
produced in generous numbers, The heart is surprisingly large 
m proportion to size of Melon. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., Z5 cts.: 
lb., — 
75 cts. 
ICIorWIov's Sweet The sweetest of aU the Water mel- 
IVieCKiey S OWeet. pij^g flavored and grained; 
tender meat. Fruits are large size; rind very thin and green; 
very brittle; flesh scarlet and firm. Season is only medium 
early; hence is not recommended for the extreme north. Pkt.. 
10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; H lb,, 75 cts. 
Phinney's Early. — This is a very choice early Melon. It Is 
very hardy and a sure cropper. The rind Is thin and the quahty 
of llesh is sustained clear to the rind. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.: 
14 lb., 75 cts. 
Black Spanish. — Large, roundish, nearly black, dark red flesh, 
early. Pkt.. 10 cts.; oz.. 25 cts.; H lb., 75 cts. 
Fordhook Early. — Shape nearly round, colour medium green; 
rind tough; flesh bright red, very delicate, melting and doliciously 
sweet. A good shipping variety. Per pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; 
a lb., 75 cts. 
Citron. — Round small fruit, used for making preserves. Per 
pkt,, 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; U lb., 75 cts. 
Cole's Early Water Melon. 
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