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like Yellow Dan vers, Yellow Globe, Yellow Dutch, Red 

 Wethersfield, etc. Professional onion growers seldom 

 plant a second crop, although they often might do so to 

 good advantage. They harvest the crop when ready, no 

 matter whether this is a few weeks earlier or later, and sell 

 it whenever they think best, often holding a considerable 

 part of the crop for spring sales. 



The Regular or Old Way. 



The first aim of the grower must be to produce a large 

 crop of perfect bulbs. To insure success in this, early 

 planting is one of the chief and indispensable conditions. 

 Plowing, harrowing, etc., as described in preceding chap- 

 ter, must be done just as early in spring as the soil has 

 dried out enough to be easily pulverized. Delay in pre- 

 paring the land, and in planting after this, always means 

 additional labor, decrease of crop, and consequently risk 

 and loss. 



The required amount of seed should have been procured 

 in the meantime. This is another important matter. I 

 always purchase my supply along in January, and at once 

 proceed to plant a few pinches of seed in a box or pot 

 filled with moist earth and kept in the kitchen window. I 

 then know exactly what I have long before the time of 

 planting. Of course, I buy directly of a reliable seed-dealer, 

 and I will say that in all my experience seed thus procured 

 has never been deficient in freshness (power of germina- 

 tion), and rarely in purity. Selection of variety for this 

 purpose should be made to suit the particular purpose or 

 particular market of the grower. Yellow Danvers (Round 

 Yellow Danvers, Yellow Globe Danvers) is yet the lead- 

 ing market onion, a good yielder, and one of the most 

 reliable of all sorts to bottom well and to produce sound 

 and handsome bulbs. Yellow Globe (Southport Yell 



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