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Okra: — In cool sections the Perfected Perkins 

 does best, but it is not quite so good in quality as the 

 southern favorite, White Velvet. The flowers and 

 plants of this vegetable are very ornamental. 



Onion: — For some unknown reason, different 

 seedsmen call the same onion by the same name. I 

 have never found any explanation of this, except 

 that a good many onions given different names in 

 the catalogues are really the same thing. At least 

 they grade into each other more than other vege- 

 tables. With me Prizetaker is the only sort now 

 grown in quantity, as I have found it to outyield all 

 other yellows, and to be a good keeper. It is a little 

 milder in quality than the American yellows — Dan- 

 vers and Southport Globe. When started under 

 glass and transplanted out in April, it attains the size 

 and the quality of the large Spanish onions of which 

 it is a descendant. Weathersfield Red is the stand- 

 ard flat red, but not quite so good in quality or for 

 keeping as Southport Red Globe. Of the whites 

 I like best Mammoth Silver-skin. It is ready early 

 and the finest in quality, to my taste, of all the 

 onions, but not a good keeper. Ailsa Craig, a new 

 English sort now listed in several American cata- 

 logues, is the best to grow for extra fancy onions, 

 especially for exhibiting; it should be started in 

 February or March under glass. 



Parsley: — Emerald is a large-growing, beautifully 



