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THIS superior stock of White Portugal Onion Seed, Northern 

 grown, is almost exclusively used for growing sets, which 

 is the strongest proof that it is the best from which to 

 grow the large white Onions. This most delicious Onion has 

 greater popularity to-day than ever. Its delicate, mild flavor, 

 its stately form and large, handsome size, its pure white color, 

 make it a most desirable variety for the table, the most profita- 

 ble for market and shipping. Plants are of an extremely thin 

 neck type, and sure to ripen early. Bulbs are perfect in form 

 and quite thick through. They are fine-grained, crisp and mild. 

 Bulbs should be harvested as soon as ripened and dried in the 

 shade to preserve their silvery white skin, the attractiveness of 

 which makes them command the highest market prices, and 

 removes the necessity for peeling them. Pkt., 5c. Oz., 15c. 

 2 Ozs., 25c. 1/4 Lb., 40c. 1/8 Lb., 05c. Lb., »1.35. 



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YELLOW 



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Grows 

 Quickly. 



WHITE SILVER SKIN ONION. 



Baltimore Co., Md., September, 1902. 

 (M Eight hundred bushels of Silver Skin Onion Sets is what I raised from v \:ft 

 (S) 50 lbs. of Silver Onion Seed bought of you last Spring. 



SPENCER PATTERSON, 



ONION SETS. 



Prices of Sets Subject to Market Changes. 

 CHOICE RE=CLEANED WHITE SILVER SKIN ONION SETS. 



Grown from our choice strain of White Silver Skin or Portugal Seed. 

 PL, 10c. QL, 15c. 1/3 Peck, 50c. Peck, 75c. Bus., S2.50. 

 CHOICE RE=CLEANED YELLOW ONION SETS. 

 Grown from our choice strain of Yellow Strasburg,- or Dutch Onion. 

 They will produce handsome, well ripened bulbs of large size quite early 

 in the Summer. PL, 10c. OL, 15c. 1/2 Peck, 45c. Peck, 65c, 

 Bus., $1.50. 



CHOICE RE=CLEANED ONION SETS. 

 Write Us for Special Prices in Quantity. 



WE ANNUALLY GROW 

 thousands of bushels 

 ofthe Choicest Onion 

 Sets, and our demand the 

 past year was so great that 

 for the earning season we 

 have more than doubled our 

 acreage. The enormous in- 

 creased demand which we 

 have had from 3'ear to year 

 has permitted us to greatly 

 increase our facilities for 

 growing and handling re- 

 clcaned Onion Sets. This de- 

 mand is sufficient proof that 

 our choice re-cleaned Onion 

 Sets are pleasing our custo- 

 mers and attracting the at- 

 tention of their neighbors 

 and other growers. We 

 grow and sell more choice 

 re-cleaned Onion Sets than 

 any other house in the South- 

 ern States, and each year for 

 five consecutive years we 

 have doubled our acreage. 

 We prefer to sell by weight 

 because we have found by 

 long experience that it is by far the most satisfactory, and the customer 

 knows exactly what he buys. Whereas if he buys by measure he will 

 find every person has a different idea of what a bushel really is. There- 

 fore, to always have a satisfactory understanding with our customer, 

 we give a weighed bushel of 32 pounds. 

 IF ONION SETS ARE TO GO BY MAIL AUD 10c. PER QUART. 



BOLGIANO'S YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS. 

 The Leading Standard Variety of the Colored Onion. 



OUR Reliable Choice Strain ofthe yellow Danvers Onion has hand- 

 Some form, with very thick bulb and small neck; very early; 

 enormous cropper; keeps perfectly, and is such a market favorite 

 as to gnd ready sale at prices 5 or 10 cents per bushel above other 

 varieties. Our stock has produced as high as 100 bushels per acre, and 

 we have never had sufficient to supply the large increased demand each 

 year. Onion is of large size, remarkably solid and heavy; yields as much 

 per acre as any variety grown; is delicious in its youngest state; is one 

 of the safest, surest keipers, and best flavored Winter variety. Pkt. 

 5c. Oz., 10c. 2 Ozs., 15c. 1/4 Lb., 25c. 1/2 Lb., 40c. Lb., 75c' 



The White Pearl, Silver Skin and Yellow Onion Sets you 

 shipped us have arrived. They are verv nice and we are pleased. 

 Yours truly, BALDWIN VEGETABLE FARM, Va. 





Gentlemen, — The Onion Seed sent me is fine. I am pleased with 

 my order. Yours truly, 

 April 16, 1902. EMMETT LORD, Md. 



Gentlemen: — The 100 bushels of Yellow Onion Sets I bought, 

 gave me perfect satisfaction and I will want not less than 200 

 bushels ofthe same kind in January, 1903. 



Yours trulv, 



July 24, 1902. J. R. JAMES, Jr. Va. 



CULTURE OF ONION SEED. 



USE any good soil; preferably a rich sand3 r loam, priTviousl}' culti- 

 vated. Fertilize liberally with rotted manure, or with artificial 

 manures. Drill in seed to depth of % inch, at the rate of 4 or 5 

 pounds to the acre for large Onions; 60 to So pounds per acre forSets, or 

 use Sets at the rate of 6 to 10 bushels to the acre, or start Onion Seed in 

 in frames, under glass, and transplant to open ground, 3 inches apart in 

 the row. This excellentplan is often referred to as the 'new onion culture.' 

 Onions are quite hardy and may be planted early. Frequent shallow 

 is best, and the soil may be used year after year, without rotation of 

 crops, if well fertilized annually. Winter storage demands dryness 1 , 

 coolness, good ventilation, and freedom from sudden changes. Spread 

 18 inches of strew on barn or garret floor, then 6 to 10 inches of Onions, 

 then 2 feet of straw; or keep on shelves in a dry, cool cellar. Set large 

 Onions in open ground in September. Protect with litter during Winter. 



