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ONIONS AMERICAN YELLOW KINDS 



IN THESE we have the greatest general utility onions 

 for all purposes. Among them we find early, mid- 

 season, and late varieties of flat, semi-round, and globe 

 shape. Yellow onions are of uniformly stronger flavor 

 than white ones, but they also keep better. 



Yellow Dutch or Strasburg is one of the oldest kinds in 

 cultivation. Average time from seeds to ripe bulbs, 120 

 days. Bulbs two and two and a half inches in diameter, 

 decidedly flat, skin light yellow. Flesh mild, firm. 



Flat Yellow Danvers requires from 125 to 130 days to 

 become two inches deep through by two and a half inches 

 in diameter. It was the great general purpose variety 

 until New England growers developed Yellow Globe 

 Danvers (illustrated to right above) which is a much heavier 

 yielder of handsome, coppery-yellow skinned bulbs, averag- 

 ing two and a half to three inches in diameter within 135 

 days. Ohio and Michigan Yellow Globe are related strains. 



Southport Yellow Globe is the largest and latest in this 

 class, also the heaviest yielder. Average size three 

 inches. Average time to mature, 140 days. The standard 

 yellow in many sections. See bulb to left, above. 



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