76 ALLIACEOUS PLANTS. 



Yellow One of the oldest varieties, and, as a mar- 



SILVER-SKIN OF ket-onion, probably better known and more 

 * GLAND. g enera iiy cultivated in this country than any 

 other sort. The true Yellow Omon has a flattened form 

 and a small neck. Its size is rather above medium, measur- 

 ing, when well grown, from three inches 

 to three inches and a half in diameter, 

 and from two inches to two inches and a 

 half in depth. Skin yellowish-brown or 

 copper - yellow, becoming somewhat 

 deeper by age, or if exposed long to the 

 sun ; flesh white, fine-grained, mild, su- 

 gary, and well flavored. It keeps well, and is very prolific : 

 few of the plants, in good soils and seasons, fail to produce 

 good-sized and well-ripened bulbs. For the vegetable- 

 garden, as well as for field-culture, it may be considered a 

 standard sort. 



The Danvers Onion, which is but a sub-variety of the 

 Common Yellow, may prove somewhat more profitable for 

 extensive cultivation, on account of its globular form ; but 

 neither in its flavor nor in its keeping properties can it be 

 said to possess any superiority over the last named. 



The term " Silver-skin," by which this onion is very gen- 

 erally though erroneously known throughout New England, 

 has created great confusion between seedsmen and dealers. 

 Much perplexity might be avoided if its application to the 

 Yellow Onion were entirely abandoned. The genuine Silver- 

 skin, as its name implies, has a skin of pure, silvery white- 

 ness, and is in other respects very dissimilar to the present 

 variety. 



The yield per acre varies from four to six hundred 

 bushels. 



For the "Give," for varieties of the "Shallot" and 

 " Welsh Onion" and also for numerous additional varieties 

 of the "Common Onion" see " FIELD AND GARDEN VEGE- 

 TABLES OF AMERICA." 



