ONION 



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Mulhouse Onion. 



Deptford, or Essex, Onion. This variety is very closely 



allied to the Straw-coloured Vertus, but is a little redder in colour 



and usually less in diameter. It is a productive and pretty early 



kind, and keeps well. The general practice is to sow it in spring ; 



but it is often grown from 



small bulbs raised in the 



previous year from thick 



sowings. These small bulbs 



form an important article 



of commerce under the name 



of Mulhouse Onions. The 



Brown Spanish, or Oporto, 



Onion is also frequently 



grown in the same way. 

 Extra Early Flat Red 



Onion. An American 



variety. Bulb very flat, of 



the same size and earliness as the Early White Silver-skinned 



Onion, but dark red tinged with violet. It is a very distinct kind, 



and bulbs remarkably early. 



O. Geant de Garganus Blanc. Corresponding to the American 



Mammoth Silver King. An Italian variety, in shape and earliness 



almost the same as the Paris Silver-skin Onion, but larger in size. 

 O. Geant de Garganus Rouge. Corresponding to the American 



Mammoth Pompeii Onion. A very large onion, deep red in colour, 



related to O. de Genes. 



Ognon de Genes. Bulb red, of medium size, often splitting into 



several cloves. It is earlier and smaller than the Blood-red Flat 



Italian Onion. 



Large Yellow Dutch Onion. An American variety. Bulb 



yellow, of medium size, nearly 

 the same shape as that of the 

 Straw-coloured Vertus Onion, 

 but of a more coppery colour, 

 like that of the Danvers Onion. 

 Yellow Lescure Onion. 

 A handsome kind, much grown 

 in the vicinity of Toulouse, 

 and all through Languedoc. 

 It is chiefly adapted for 

 sowing in autumn. The bulb 

 somewhat resembles that of 

 the Niort Pale Red Onion, but 



is not so flat, and its colour is much more of a yellow or coppery tinge. 

 Bright Red Mezieres Onion. Bulb flat, very broad, sometimes 



4 or 5 in. across, and about 2 in. thick, of a fine intense red colour, 



Bright Red Mezieres Onion. 



