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sede the Strasburg for that purpose. It certainly is far 

 more productive, but the question, whether it will keep as 

 well in sets, daring winter, has not been sufficiently test- 



Fig. 54. YELLOW DAN- Fig. 55. WETHERSFIELD BED 



VERS ONION. ONION. 



ed. When sown from seed, as a field crop, it is said to 

 give one-third, greater weight than any other variety, but 

 it does not keep so well as some others. 



Wethersfield Large Red, This is the staple variety 

 of the eastern Onion growers ; 

 enormous quantities of it are 

 grown for shipment, it be- 

 ing found, from its excel- 

 lent keeping qualities, to be 

 best fitted for that purpose. 

 It is never so salable as the 

 White or Yellow, however, 

 Fig. 56,-poTATo ONION. j n our } lome markets, anc l i s 



rarely grown from sets here. 



Potato Onions, or "Multipliers," as they are some- 

 times called, are the mildest of all Onions, and though not 



