standard Varieties of Onions 119 



Southport Bed Globe, Southport JMiite Globe and 

 Southport Yellow Globe are all popular and desirable 

 varieties, differing very little in size, form, quality or 

 productiveness, but the colored varieties keep better 

 than the white. 



Extra- Earhj Pearl and SilversMn are two popular 

 varieties for the home garden on account of earliness, 

 pure white color and delicacy of flavor. Both are small 

 and poor keepers. 



Prizetaker. — I have derived more satisfaction from 

 this splendid variety than from any other. It is large, 

 of beautiful form and fine flavor. The outside skin is 

 straw-color; flesh white, mild and tender. Good from 

 either seed or sets. 



White and Red Bermuda. — These varieties have been, 

 for many years, shipped in large quantities from Ber- 

 muda Islands, holding a monopoly of the early market, 

 but thej^ are now being grown on a considerable scale 

 in Florida. 



Top Onion. — This is an old and popular variety, which 

 produces large bulbs and at the same time provides for 

 its propagation by growing buttons, instead of seed, at 

 the top of the seed -stalk. It is very popular in the 

 alpine region of South Carolina, North Carolina and 

 Georgia as a first crop, followed by cabbages trans- 

 planted in June between the onion rows just before the 

 onions mature. 



White Multipliers. — This variety produces no seed- 

 stalk, but from a single bulb multiplies to the extent of 

 producing a cluster of eight or ten new bulbels, each of 

 which is capable of similar multiplication when planted. 



