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**Flat Onions. 



a. Bulbs deep and distinctly red. 

 25. Extra Early Red. Small to medium (reaching two and a half 



inches in diameter), regular in shape, very early. Apparently 



one of the very best early. — From Root. 

 2^. Early Red Globe. Medium in size, tending to globe-shape on 



top, regular and handsome, early. Much thicker than the last ; 



also larger. Evidently a slight departure from Wethersfield. — 



From Eoot. 



27. Red Wethersfield. Too well known to need description. Grown 

 from Englisli seed, it was larger than from American seed and 

 was not ripe Sept. 16. " In its original form the bulb was quite 

 spherical but at the present day it is seldom found, even in 

 America, without having the ends somewhat flattened, and wher- 

 ever the primitive form occurs it is known as the Large Red 

 Globe."* — From England and Eoot. 



28. Early Flat Red. Indistinguishable from Wethersfield. — From 

 Vaughan. 



29. Early Round. Indistinguishable from Wethersfield. — From 

 Vaughan. 



30. Blood Red Medium to large, tending to globe-shape above. 

 Not yet ripe (Sept. 16). Evidently not distinct from Wethers- 

 field. — From England. 



h. Bulbs indifferent in color, — reddish and yellowish. 



31. YellQiv Strasburg. Small, even in shape, uneven in size, very 

 pale yellow, very early. Desirable for home use. — From 

 Vaughan. 



32. Pale Red Bermioda. Small, varying from flat to somewhat globe- 

 shaped, uneven in size, light chocolate-red, very early. — From 

 Henderson. 



33. Yelloio Danvers. Too well known to need description. ''It is 

 an American variety, and when first introduced into France 

 (about 1850) was quite spherical in shape, but now it grows 

 almost always more or less flattened, not only in European gar- 

 dens, but also in its native country."! — From Root and 

 England. 



34. Flat Yellow Danvers. Tending to grow larger than No. 33, and 

 more inclined to assume a globe form. — From Vaughan. 



35. Yelloio Danvers Globe. Indistinguishable from Yellow Danvers. 

 — From Root. 



36. Nasbey's Mammoth. Averages somewhat larger and later than 

 Danvers, but cannot be distinguished from the Danvers grown 

 from English seeds. — From Gregory. 



37. Early Yelloiv Cracker. A fine onion of uniform size and shape, 

 averaging consiilerably larger than Danvers from American seeds, 

 ripening evenly. Evidently a good selection from Danvers. — 

 From Gregory. 



38. Banbury Improved. Medium in size, tending to globe shaped 

 above, straw yellow. Not ripe September 16. — From England. 



* Robinson, The Vegetable Garden, 369. 

 + Robinson, The "Vegetable Garden, 365. 



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