124 ALLIACEOUS PLANTS. 



Deutford. Very similar to, if not identical with, the En"-- 



Thomp. 



BROWN DEPT- lish Strasburg. " It sometimes exactly agrees 



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with the description of that variety ; but it occa- 

 sionally has a pale-brown skin, without any tinge of red ; 

 and, when this is the case, its flavor is milder than that of 

 the last named/' 



With the exception of its more globular form, the bulb 

 much resembles the Yellow Onion of this country. 



Early Silver This is a small variety of the Early Silver- 



XsTocera. 

 EARLY SMALL skin, with an occasionally roundish, but gener- 



*^%j"^ ally oblate bulb. The skin is white ; but the 

 layers beneath are striped with bright-green lines. The 

 leaves are very small. Sometimes the bulb has only a single 

 leaf, frequently but two ; and, if there are more than four, 

 the plant has not its true character. 



It is an excellent sort for pickling, and is the smallest and 

 earliest variety known, being fifteen or twenty days earlier 

 than the Early Silver-skin ; but it is liable to increase in size, 

 and to degenerate. Very little known or cultivated in this 

 country. 



Early Red A sub-variety of the Large Red Wethersfield, 

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and the earliest of the red onions. Form and 



color nearly the same as the Large Red ; bulb small, measur- 

 ing about two inches and a half in diameter, and about an 

 inch and a half in depth. It is close-grained, mild, a good 

 keeper ; forms its bulbs, with few exceptions, and ripens, the 

 last of July, being three or four weeks earlier than the 

 Large Red. Cultivated to a limited extent in various places 

 on the coast of New England, for early consumption at 

 home, and for shipment to the South and West. 



This variety and the Intermediate arc liable to degenerate : 

 they tend to grow larger and later, approaching the original 



