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slightly tinged with purple on the inner coats ; neck rather stout ; 

 leaves large, numerous, erect, and dark green in colour. A very 

 handsome and exceedingly productive variety. It keeps well, and 

 is very suitable for sowing in spring. 



Ognon Monteragone. An Italian variety. Bulb medium- 

 sized, thickish, with a coppery red skin, and rather like that of 

 the Strasburg Onion. 



Naseby Mammoth, Nuneham Park, and Improved Reading 

 Onion. These three varieties are so like one another that they 

 may be considered identical. They are a form of the White 

 Spanish Onion with the bulb thicker and somewhat darker 

 coloured than that of the ordinary variety. 



Niirnberger Zwiebel. A German variety of the Common Pale 

 Red Onion, from which it is distinguished by the smallness of the 

 bulbs, which are also somewhat firmer and better shaped. 



O. de Puyregner, or O. Rouge Rose d' Angers. In Anjou this 

 variety is considered different from the Niort Pale Red Onion. 

 We mention it here merely to state this, as from all the comparative 

 trials we have made with it, it appears to us to be exactly the same. 



Red Globe Onion. An American variety, apparently only a 

 spherical-bulbed form of the Wethersfield Onion. 



O. Rouge Monstre. A kind of Tripoli Onion, intermediate in 

 shape between the Globe and the Flat varieties, and of a very 

 decided red colour. 



Yellow Russian Onion. An exceedingly distinct kind. 

 Bulbs rather small and thick, with the fault of frequently splitting 

 into cloves, but still keeping better than any other kind. We have 

 seen bulbs of this variety which were gathered in autumn keeping 

 good for use until September of the following year. The outer 

 skin is very leathery ; it is of a coppery colour, like that of the 

 Strasburg Onion, but with age becomes as brown as the skin of 

 a Tulip bulb. 



O. Brun de Saint-Laurent. Of Italian origin, bulbs top- 

 shaped, almost flat, copper-yellow, tending to brown. A vigorous 

 late variety. 



O. Rouge de Salon. A southern variety, with a large but rather 

 soft bulb, like that of the Tripoli Onions. In colour it quite 

 resembles the Blood-red Flat Italian Onion, but it is notably 

 thicker. 



O. de Teneriffe. A very distinct small-sized variety, with a 

 very flat bulb of a grayish pink colour. This is the earliest of all 

 varieties next to the New Queen Onion, being even some days 

 earlier than the Early White Nocera. It may be here remarked 

 that in sowings of the last-named variety some coloured bulbs are 

 almost always found which bear a marked resemblance to the 

 Teneriffe Onion. 



