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stored with the tops left on until desired for planting. 

 The smaller the sets the better, since the large sets are 

 liable to produce flower -stalks. 



The Top or Tree Onion produces both the large bulbs 

 and sets, or bulblets, at the top of the flower-stalk instead 



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Fig. 12. Red Globe Onions. 



of seed. The top sets ("buttons") are also used for 

 reproducing the large onions. 



The Multipliers produce neither seed nor buttons, 

 but produce a compound bulb, the separate bulblets of 

 which are planted for the next crop. This is the case 

 also with the variety known as the Potato onion. The 

 true shallot which belongs to the same genus, produces 

 neither seed nor buttons but multiplies in bulbs some- 

 times an hundred fold. I have counted 105 in one 



