Y !■;. . ETABLES OXIOX. 



Is.", 



sede the Strasburg for that purpose. It certainly is far 

 more productive, but the question, whether it will keep as 

 well in set?, daring winter, has not been sufficiently test- 



Fig. 54. — YELLOW BAX- 

 TERS ONION. 



Fig. 55. — WETHERSFIELD RED 

 ONION. 



ed. When sown from seed, as a field crop, it is said to 

 give one-third greater weight than any other variety, but 

 it does not keep so well as some others. 



Wethersfield Large Red. — This is the staple variety 



of the eastern Onion growers ; 

 enormous quantities of it are 

 grown for shipment, it be- 

 ing found, from its excel- 

 lent keeping qualities, to be 

 best fitted for that purpose. 

 It is never so salable as the 

 White or Yellow, however, 

 Tig. 56.— potato oxiox. i n our i 10me markets, and is 



rarely grown from sets here. 



Potato Onions, or " Multipliers," as they are some- 

 times called, are the mildest of all Onions, and though not 



