182 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



It may be given, as a fair average, that $1.50 per barrel is 

 the price realized by the grower. The product is about 

 150 barrels per acre, and the cost of raising about $12o ; 

 leaving a profit of 8100 per acre. 



The varieties of Onion are quite numerous, but, as in 

 all other leading vegetables, cultivators confine them- 

 selves to only a few well established sorts. 



Yellow Dutch, or StraslHirg . — This is the variety that 

 is grown almost exclusively when the crop is planted from 

 " sets," and sold in the green state. Not that it is any 

 more productive, nor does it sell quite so well as the White 

 or Silver Skinned, but from the fact of the " sets " keep- 

 ing better in winter, it is the sort we find safest to use. 



White, or Silver Skinned. — A very handsome sort, of 

 delicate flavor, much grown for private use ; it requires 



more care in keeping in win- 

 ter than any other, however, 

 and is hardly ever used as 

 a market sort, unless for 

 pickling, for which it is sold 

 in large quantities. The 

 bulb is quite flat ; the outer 

 pr skin, silvery white. It is 

 5R^^^^ entirely distinct from the 



Fig. 53.— selyer-skinned onion. « Silver Skin " of the East- 

 ern States, which is a brownish-yellow skinned variety, bet- 

 ter known as Old Yellow, or Common Yellow. 



Yellow Danvers. — This variety has not been sufficiently 

 tested as a market sort, to be sold green, but from what I 

 have seen of it, I am inclined to think it may yet supeiv 



