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JAMES J. II. GREGORY & BOUT8 RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
MUSKMELOIS. 
CHAMPION MARKET. 
This new claimant for public favor is claimed to be 
quite distinct from other varieties. It weighs from four to 
five pounds each. The flesh is light green in color, of a rich, 
sweet flavor. It is deeply ribbed and heavily netted. It is 
about three times the size of the Netted Gem. It has been 
sold in markets of New York at $1.50 per barrel higher than 
the average of melons. It is said to be very productive. It 
is an excellent shipper and promises to make a first-class 
market variety. Whether it will surpass the Miller our 
patrons must judge. Price, per lb., postpaid, $1.00; per i lb., 
28 cts.; per oz., 10 cts.; per pkg., 5 cts. 
GOLDEN NETTED GEM. 
A new and most valuable acquisition. On our experimental 
grounds, side by side with several other sorts, we found it 
ripened as early as the earliest, and the whole crop considered 
decidedly the earliest A any of them. Green-fleshed, nearly 
round in form, very heavy for its size, flavor delicious. It is 
below the average size, making it a better variety for family use 
than for market , but is a tremendous cropper, yielding as many 
as twenty to a single hill. Price, per oz., 10 cts.; per pkg., 
fy cts. 
BIRD CANTALOUPE. 
Mr. Bird claims for his new Cantaloupe Melon extreme 
earliness, large size, fine flavor, and good keeping qualities. 
The flesh is thick, light green in color, and of fine quality. 
They have been grown to weigh twenty-two pounds, measur¬ 
ing 34 by 38£ inches. 
Mr. B. F. Battles, of Massachusetts, writes: “It is double the size of 
the Montreal cantaloupe and fully equal to it in flavor.” 
Price, per lb., postpaid, SO cts.; per oz., 10 cts.; per pkg., 
5 cts. 
HACKENSACK. 
Considered in New York the most popular variety of musk- 
melon for market. It attains a large size, is round in shape, 
flattened at the ends, is of a most delicious flavor, and won¬ 
derfully productive. Price, per lb., postpaid, 80 cts.; per 
pkg., 5 cts. 
SILL’S HYBRID. 
This has all the earliness and sweet¬ 
ness of the White Japan, but is more 
spicy and delicious. Very vigorous 
and productive. The flesh is of salmon 
color. N o garden should be without it. 
Geo. W. Stet«on, Barre, Mass ., writes: 
“ Growing your Sill’s Hybrid Melon, I find 
it to be delicious in quality.” 
Pi‘ice per lb., postpaid, 90 cts.; per 
oz., 10 cts.; per pkg., 5 cts. 
THE MIUER CREAM. 
This melon, which we were the first to name and catalogue, 
has deservedly become exceedingly popular, probably more so 
than any muskmelon now before the public. The best recom¬ 
mendation we can give for this queen of melons is the fact that 
the marketmen in 1886 bought up all the seed they could pro¬ 
cure at $5 per lb. It is a 
cross between those two 
delicious melons, Sill’s 
Hybrid and Casaba, 
growing rather larger 
than the former. The 
flesh is of a rich salmon 
color, very sweet and 
melting in quality, and 
is so very thick that the 
melon is almost solid, the 
seed cavity being re¬ 
markably small. The 
rind is thin, slightly su¬ 
tured, and but little netted. The vine is a strong grower, and 
productive. Tested side by side, it was not excelled in produc¬ 
tiveness by any of the varieties in our experimental grounds. 
Says Mr. Goff, of the New York A £. Exp. Station: “ It is extremely 
sweet, rich, and delicious, and very distinct from any other.” 
Chas. Purrington, Pequabuck, Conn., writes: “The Miller Cream is„ 
without exception, the very best variety I ever raised; many of my friend* 
pronounce it the best they* ever ate, and 1 have a good many friends about 
the time melons are ripe.” 
^gpWe will advise all our customers who like a first-class 
melon by all means to try the Miller. 
Price, per lb., postpaid, $1.10; per \ lb., 33 cts.; per oz., 15 
cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
SURPRISE. 
This new melon has a thin, cream-colored skin and a thick, 
salmon-colored flesh. Early, very productive, and of delicious 
flavor. Externally it resembles White Japan, but grows to 
twice the size. Price, per lb., postpaid, 80 cts.; per pkg., 5 cts. 
This melon surpasses all others in its delicious fragrance. 
None of the one hundred and seventy varieties of vegetables 
exhibited by us at the Essex Agricultural Society in the fall 
of 1883 created a greater interest than the Banana Melon. It 
is externally of a creamy-white or delicate straw color. Just 
under the.outer skin the under one is seen, of a bright green 
color, while the flesh below (the melon being nearly solid) is 
of a rich salmon, making a fine and striking contrast when 
brought to the table. The quality is first-rate when the melons: 
are thoroughly ripe. It grows from eighteen inches to two 
feet in length, and is very prolific. When ripe it reminds one 
of a large, overgrown banana, and, what is a singular coinci¬ 
dence, it smells like one, having a remarkably powerful and de¬ 
licious fragrance. Price, per lb., postpaid, 80 cts.; per oz., 10 
cts.; per pkg., 5 cts. 
DELMONICO. 
_1_ lllQ lido d LclJAlLl, 
name, that of the 
famous New York 
caterer, who may be 
supposed to know 
what a good melon 
is. The flesh is of 
an orange pink color 
of the sarhe fi ne qual¬ 
ity as the “ Emerald 
Gem.” Mr. (to y, 
of Waterloo, Neb., 
probably the largest 
melon grower in the 
world, writes us that 
Delmonico was the 
only muskmelon of 
uniform good quality with him in 1889. Price, per lb. pos 
paid, $1.00; per oz., 10 cts.; per pkg., 5 cts. 
