180 VEGETABLE GARDENING 



ers average from three to five hundred bushels per acre. 

 Skillful growers get yields of from 800 to 1000 bushels per 

 acre. 



Onions for the home garden should be raised partly 

 from seed and partly from sets or transplanting. The small 

 onions picked out from one season's crop may be used as 

 sets for the next year, when they will give a much earlier 

 crop than those grown from seed. 



Varieties. For general field crops in the Northwest 

 varieties of the Globe type are now the most popular. 



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Fig. 68. Varieties of onions; /, Southport Yellow Globe; 2, Silver Skin; 3, 

 Red Globe; 4, Prizetaker; 5, Yellow Danver. 



Among these may be mentioned the Red, Yellow, and 

 White, Globe onions. The Yellow Danvers is another of 

 the Globe type. Red Wethersfield is the old standard red 

 flat variety, not as desirable as the Globe. The earliest 

 maturing large kind is Extra Early Red. For raising sets, 

 the Yellow Dutch, called also Yellow Strasburg, is the best, 

 but any variety may be used for this purpose. For growing 

 in hotbeds, greenhouses, or window boxes and transplanting 

 to the open ground, the Prizetaker and the Southport 

 Yellow Globe are most in demand. 



