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color and the Red. The Crystal Wax and the White are 

 the. varieties grown for market. 



Onions in Florida and the Gulf Coast Section. 



The Bermuda varieties and the Creole onion of Louis- 

 iana are the only safe varieties for this section and all of 

 them should be planted from September 15th to November 

 1st. It is generally customary in Florida and this entire 

 section to plant seed in open ground where the crop is to 

 bo grown, thinning out to a stand. Our observation of 

 and experience with this crop covers' some twenty years 

 and every yearns observation convinces us that planting in 

 beds and transplanting is the best and most profitable 

 method in spite of the labor involved. The transplanting 

 saves three weedings and the thinning out and where the 

 plants' are sorted it means a full stand of uniform sized 

 and maturing plants, a thing utterly impossible where one 

 sows to a stand. Another point is seed-saving. When 

 sown in beds two and a half to three pounds of seed will 

 usually furnish s'ufficient vigorous plants for an acre while 

 four to five pounds are necessary to insure a stand with 

 the other method. 



In Florida and the coast section, what are commonly 

 called "hammock" lands are the favorite lands for this 

 crop. Low pine lands along the edges of lakes, creeks' and 

 rivers, lands that stay moist but not wet are admirably 

 adapted to this crop when well fertilized. Some of the 

 best onion crops we have ever seen were produced on what 

 are known as the "marl prairie" lands of the lower East 

 Coast of Florida, lands' bordering the Everglades. The 

 muck lands produce enormous crops but unless well 



