For the Southern States. 



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Tall Growing". This is the variety most cultivated here. 

 The pods are long, round towards the end, and keep longer tender 

 than the square podded kind. 



Dwarf. Cultivated only as being earlier than the former 

 kind. The pods are short, thick and ribbed, and not so nice in 

 appearance as the Tall Growing variety. 



ONION. 



Onion (Fr.), Zwiebel (Ger.), Cebolla (Sp.) 

 Yellow Dutch or Stras«burg. I White, or PvIlvrr Skin. 

 Large Red Wethersfield. | Creole. 



The Onion is one of the most important vegetables, and is 

 grown to a large extent in Louisiana. Hundreds of barrels are 

 shipped in spring from here to the Western and Northern States. 

 There is one peculiar feature about raising Onions here, and that 

 is they can only be raised from Southern, or so-called Creole seed. 

 No seed from North, West, or any x:>art of Europe, will produce a 

 merchantable Onion in the South. When the crop of Creole seed 

 is a failure, and they are scarce, they will bring a good price, and 

 have been sold as high as ten dollars a pound, when at the same 

 time Northern seed could be had for one-fourth of that price. 

 Northern raised seed can be sown to be used green, but as we 

 have Shalots here which grow during the whole autumn and 

 winter, and multiply very rapidly, the sowing of seed for green 



Louisiana Creole Onion. 



onions is not profitable. Seed should 

 of September to the end of October ; 



be sown from the middle 

 if sown sooner too many 



