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For the Southern States. 
Tall Growing. This is the variety most cultivated here. The 
pods are long, round towards the end, and keep tender longer than 
the square podded kind. 
Dwarf White. This is avery early and prolific variety, and re- 
mains tender longer than any other. It will come into general cul- 
tivation when better known. The stock of seed Loffer has been selected 
for years, and is very pure. 
ONION. 
OGNON (Fr.), ZWIEBEL (Ger.), CEBOLLA (Sp.). 
| CrEOoLE. | NEw QUEEN. 
The Onion is one of the most important vegetables, and is grown 
to a large extent in Louisiana. Thousands 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 part 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 dollarsa pound, when atthe 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 Shallots here which grow 
during the whole autumn and winter, and multiply veryerapidly, the 
sowing of seed for green Onions is not profitable. Seed should be 
sown from the middle of September to the end of October; if sown 
sooner too many will throw up seed stalks. They are generally sown 
broad-cast, and when the size of a goose quill transplanted into rows 
one to two feet apart, and about five inches in the rows. Onions are 
different, in regard 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. ; 
LPF NS 
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Louisiana or Creole Onion. 
