70 ALLIACEOUS PLANTS. 



to any extent in this country. Many of the kinds succeed 

 only in warm latitudes, and others are quite unimportant. 

 * The Danvers, Large Red, Silver-skin, and the Yellow, seem 

 peculiarly adapted to our soil and climate. The annual 

 product of these varieties greatly exceeds that of all the 

 other sorts combined. 



Danvers Red. A recently introduced variety, with the 

 color and general quality of the Large Red 

 Wethersfield, and the form of the Danvers Yellow.' It is 

 recommended as being hardy, keeping well, and as rivalling 

 the first named in productiveness. 



Danvers Yellow. This somewhat recent variety was ob- 

 tained by selection from the Common 

 Yellow. It is above medium size, and 

 inclined to globular in its form. Average 

 bulbs measure three inches in diameter, 

 and two inches and three - fourths in 

 depth. The skin is yellowish-brown, but 

 becomes darker by age, and greenish- 

 brown if long exposed to the sun ; the 



Danvers Onion. flesh ^ g ^ to thftt of the Yellow, 



white, sugary, comparatively mild, and well-flavored. 



The superiority of the Danvers Onion over the last named 

 consists principally, if not solely, in its greater productive- 

 ness. When grown under like conditions, it yields, on the 

 average, nearly one-fourth more ; and on this account the 

 variety is generally employed for field-culture. It is, how- 

 ever, not so good a keeper ; and for shipping-purposes is 

 decidedly inferior to the Yellow, its globular form rendering 

 it more liable to decay from the heat and dampness inci- 

 dent to sea- voyages. 



Deptford. Similar to, if not identical with, the English 



Strasburg. " It sometimes exactly agrees with 

 the description of that variety : but it occasion- 



