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coating light purplish. The flesh pure white, the outer surface of 
the coating only being coloured. Very firm, solid, and of mild and 
excellent quality, and keeps well. A fine, handsome onion from 
America. The finest type of Red Onion. 
12, Earty Rep (Hovey & Co.).—Rather early red variety. 
Bulbs of medium size, flat, of a very dull red colour. Flesh firm 
and solid, and of good quality. 
13. Two-BLnapED.—The true two-leaved type has small roundish 
bulbs about an inch in diameter. Skin dull yellowish-brown; the 
flesh greenish white and frequently a little coloured. Very firm 
and solid, and keeps well. The small size makes it useful for 
pickling purposes. 
14. Trnerirre (Benary & Son.)—This greatly resembled in 
appearance the smaller types of the T'wo-bladed. 
15. Sriver-sxin (Nutting & Son)—[syns., Silver-skin Pickling 
(Veitch), Early White Silver-skinned (Benary & Son), White 
Round Early Hard Dutch (Vilmorin et Cie.) ]|—Bulbs are of medium 
size, roundish oblate. Outer skin pure white or silvery. The flesh 
pure white, firm and solid. Keeps well, and useful to those who 
prefer very white onions. Quite distinct from the Paris Silver-skin, 
which does not keep well. 
16. QueEn [syns., New Queen, Piccirillo’s New Queen].—A 
very small and very early variety of the Silver-skinned section. It 
forms bulbs almost as quickly as a radish, and has rarely more than 
two or three leaves. Fully grown last season by the first of June, 
about fifteen days earlier than the White Italian Tripoli. It exactly 
resembles the Nocera as introduced from Italy about thirty years 
ago, and the Florence White of earlier date. 
17. Porato Onton [syn., Underground Onion].—This is not 
propagated by seeds. The small bulbs are planted in the ground 
like Shallots, and around these a number of new bulbs are produced. 
Bulbs are of average size. Skin reddish brown. Flesh tolerably 
firm, solid, and of fair quality. Does not keep well, but useful for 
an early supply. 
18. Eeyrrran [syns., Egyptian Bulbiferous, Tree Onion, Garden 
Rocambole]. This variety throws up a stem on which, instead of 
flowers, small bulbs are produced of the size of small marbles, which 
are very excellent for pickling. It is propagated by planting these 
bulbules (the largest of which will bear bulbs the same season), or 
by the bulbs formed in the ground, and that have not formed stems. 
19. American PEREnniat Tree, on Tor Onton (Carter & Co.). 
—Small and inferior. No bulbs are formed in the ground. The 
plant is perennial; the roots are long and fibrous. 
20. Wxetsu.—Of this there are two varieties, the Red and the 
Green. The plant is an herbaceous perennial, and forms no bulbs; 
the roots are long and fibrous. The green tops or leaves only are 
used. It may be propagated by seed or by division of the roots. 
