PREFACE 



In bringing this revised and enlarged treatise on 

 the new way of growing onions by the method which 

 has become famous under the name "new onion cul- 

 ture" before the public, the author makes no pretense 

 of believing that there is a lack of literature on the 

 subject of onion culture in America. On the contrary, 

 he willingly and freely concedes that all phases of the 

 culture of this vegetable have found a most liberal 

 consideration at the hands of the writers of books, 

 pamphlets, bulletins and agricultural newspaper arti- 

 cles. The author himself has been guilty of adding 

 largely to the mass of printed matter on onions. All 

 this, however, together with the large sales which most 

 of the more popular treatises on onion growing have 

 met with right along, only proves the great importance 

 of the subject. 



The first edition of The New Onion Culture w r as 

 issued in the spring of 1891, and had to be followed 

 by new editions in rapid succession to meet the unex- 

 pected demand; yet this demand still continues. No 

 further excuse will therefore be offered for this attempt 

 to take the subject in hand once more, and to bring the 

 "new onion culture" into renewed and thoroughly 

 up-to-date form. 



Many hundreds of experiment station and de- 

 partment bulletins and reports on the onion have been 

 issued, a list of which will be given later on. A veg- 



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