For the Southern States. 



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ONION. 



Onion, (Fr.) Zwiebel, (Ger. 



Cebolla, (Sp.) 



White, or Silver Skin. 

 Creole. 



Yellow Dutch or Strassburg. 

 Large Bed Wethersfield. 



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 

 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. 



Louisiana, or Creole Onion. 



