EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN, FARM AND LAWN 
Musk Melon 
One ounce will tow about 70 hills 
Montreal Improved Nutmeg. — vaHety 
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. 
Honev Dew The delicious honeylike flavor 
' of this new melon has met with 
Instantaneous public flavor and created a sensation 
wherever used. The fruit Is of lar.;e size, welshing 
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., 35 cts.: 
H lb., $1.00. 
Gold Lined Rocky Ford. — shape is 
ideal, very 
slightly oval, no ribs, and It is heavily nette.1 over the 
entire melon. The bloom button is small and flesh 
as thick at the end as elsewhere. The melon is thick 
meated. fine grained and sweet; colour green witli a 
gold margin next to the seed cavity. Pkt., 10 cts.; 
oz., 35 cts.; H lb.. $1.00. 
Early Hackensack. — 4" improvement over 
^ the old Hackensack, 
producing melons of as good quality and fully 10 
days earlier. Large fruit, with thick green flesh of 
the finest flavor. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; lb 
90 cts. 
Petoskey or Paul Rose.— a yeiwfleshe^^ 
size for a crate melon and of excellent quality. The 
vines are vigorous and productive. The fruits are 
oval, slightly ribbed and densely netted. Tn general 
appearance they are much like Netted Gem, but larger The 
flesh is orange yellow, very thick, firm, sweet and highly 
flavored. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; a lb.. 90 ots. 
Miller's Cream. — Skin dark green colour, slightly netted. 
Slesh salmon colour, sweet and delicious flavor. A remarkable 
keeper. One of the' best salmon-fleshed Melons for shipDing 
Pkt.. 10 cts.;oz., 30 cts.; K lb., 9a cts. 
Rocky Ford. — Very early, flesh light green, very popular sort. 
Per pkt.. 10 cts.: oz., 30 cts.; M lb.. 90 cts. 
Montreal Improved Nutmeg Melon. 
Sutton's Superlative Forcing.— °I™ra'*iTt 
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 
bablt and sets its fruit with unusual freedom. Pkt., $1.00 
WATER MELON 
One ounce will plant 
50 hills 
Th» hiiS'.^^'i.M 112"? are cultivated in hills, which should be six to eight feet apart each way. and of Ught. moderately rich soU. 
Ihe hills should be dug about two feet square, 18 inches deep, and half fllled with well-rotted manure, which must be thorough- 
ly Incorporated with the soil. Plant in May, ten seeds to 
a hill; when the plants are well up, thin out to three. Cultivate 
until the vines cover the ground, and. pinch the ends of the 
growing shoots to induce early fruiting. .Seeds should not 
be put into the hills until the weather becomes settled and 
warm. 
Cole's Earlv variety for the family and market, 
and is 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 
in proportion to size of Melon. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; 
H lb.. 75 cts. 
Klecklev's Sweet- The sweetest of all the Water mel- 
l\.iecKiey S oweet. y^^^ 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. 
Phlnney's Early. — This is a very choice early Melon, tt Is 
very hardy and a sure cropper. The rind is thin and the quality 
of flesh is sustained clear to the rind. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; 
H 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 deliciously 
sweet. A good shipping variety. Per pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 28 cts.; 
M lb., 75 cts. 
Cole's Early Water Melon. 
Citron. — Round small fruit, used for making preserves, 
pkt.. 10 cts.: oz., 25 cts.; >^ lb.. 75 cts. 
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