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practical Onion-growers confine themselves to a few 

 kinds for their main crop. 



Early Eed. — A medium-sized Onion, very early, 

 lighter in color than the Large Eed, close flesh and a 

 good keeper. 



Wethersfibld Large Red is grown as a field- 

 crop, extensively in the Eastern States, .especially in 

 Connecticut. It attains a lai-ge size — color dark red, 

 rounding in shape, and has good keeping qualities. 



WETHBKSFIBLD LABGE BED. 



Yellow Danvees is a good variety for market- 

 gardeners to grow from " sets," being superior in 

 many respects to the kind commonly grown in that 

 way, and known as the Yellow Dutch. It is straw- 

 color, fiesh close, and keeps as well in Winter as any 

 other variety, besides being more productive than the 

 Dutch. 



