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Tall Orowing:. This is the variety most cultivated here. The 

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

 square podded kind. 



D^warf. 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, (Fp.) Zwiebel, (Ger.) Cebolla, (Sp.) 



Yellow Dutch or Strassburg. | White, or Silver Skin. 

 Large Bed Wethersfield. I 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 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 

 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 Shallots here which grow during the whole 

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



Louisiana or Creole Onion. 



