For the Southern States. 



dollars a pound, when at the same tiaie 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 Shall(>ts here which grow during the whole 

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

 green Onions is not profitable. Seed ought to be sown from the middle 

 of September to the end of October; if sown sooner, too many will 

 throw up seed stalks. When the month of September has been dry 

 and hot, the beds w^here the seed are sown ought to be covered with 

 moss. Where this cannot be had, palmettos can be used, but they 

 should be taken off in the evening and replaced in the morning. When 

 the seed are w^ell up, this is no longer necessary, but watering should 

 be continued. —They are generally sown broad-cast, and when the 

 size of a goose quill should be transplanted into rows one to two feet 

 apart, and about five inches in the rows. Onions are different, in re- 

 gard to rotation, from other vegetables. They do best if raised on the 

 same ground for a succession of years. The price of Onions has been 

 good, and it is expected to be equally as good next spring. The crop 

 of seed has been very good for the last two years, which will enable 

 me to have a good lot sown for sets next January ; an article I never 

 could get in sufficient quantity to supply the demand. If sets are 

 planted out, they will produce large size Onions much earlier than 

 seed sown in the fall-— 



Louisiana or Creole Onion. 



XiOUJisiana or Creole Onioai. This is generally of a light red 

 color, darker than the Strassburg, and lighter in color than the Weth- 

 ersfield. The seed I have been selling, of this kind, for a number of 

 years, has been raised on Bayou Lafourche, and has never failed to 

 make line large Onions. 



The crop of Creole Onion seed having failed some years ago, I sold 

 a good deal of Italian seed, and had ample opportunity to see the re- 

 suits. The Giant Eocca I have discarded ; it takes too long to bulb 

 and is very spongy. The Bermuda and Ked Tripoli have done fairly, 

 but the Onions do not mature as early as the Creole, and do not keep 

 so well, although attaining a very large size, and more so the Bermuda. 



