- ATTAINS A WEIGHT. OF 23 TO 
3 LBS. THE FIRST YEAR — 
FROM SEED. 
SILVER KING GROW 
IN 1885. 
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HE year 1884 witnessed the first introduction 
e [° of Silver King. The previous year a large 
number of sample packets were distributed 
for trial. Reports received from whieh fully 
endorsed my high opinion of it, but it remained for 
me, this fall, to be fairly deluged with letters and 
postals all containing words of the highest praise 
AS THE 
WONDERFUL QUALITY OF THIS NOW 
FAMOUS ONION, seed of which IJ sold last Spring 
to thousands, I was going to say tens of thousands 
of my customers. 
Silver King grows larger than any other 
variety in cultivation. The bulbs are of attrac- 
tive shape, flattened but thick through, as shown in 
the illustration above. The average diameter of 
the onions is from 5 to 744 inches—thus making the 
circumference from 18 to 22 inches. Single bulbs 
often attain weights of from 214 to 4 pounds each. 
No other variety attains such mammoth size, 
nor will any other variety grow uniformly 
so large. The skin is of a beautiful silvery white; 
the flesh is snowy white, and ofa particularly mild 
and pleasant flavor. So sweet and tender is the 
fiesh that it can be eaten raw, like an apple. Every | 
one desiring the largest and handsomest onions 
of the finest flavor, will be more than satisfied 
with the Silver King. It cannot be too highly 
ded. Think of it! $50 in cash paid for one onion. 
; _ FOR LARGEST SILVER KING grown fro 3 q 
ba 1885; onions to be sent to me by mail or express, charges 
: 5 prepaid, before Nov. 10, 1885, when pr . 
EFTTA 
Pkt., 15 ote.; oz., 40 cts.; 2 oz., 75 cts.; }Ib., $1.25; Ib., $4.00; 3 Ibs. for $10,00. 
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SIZE, KARLY MATURITY, AND 
_edge they are enormous weights for an onion 
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The New Mammoth Onion---SILVER KING. — 
recommended, either for family use, for exhibition. 
at fairs or in restaurants, or for sale on market, 
where its size and beauty will prove very striking. 
This year I have been compelled, through lack 
of room, to curtail our list of testimonials, but I 
have given on page 7 a few, selected from hundreds 
of those received. I DON’T THINK ANY ONE 
WHO READS THE ABOVE, LOOKS AT THE 
CUT (WHICH IS WONDERFULLY ACCUR- 
ATE), CAN AFTERWARDS FAIL TO SEND 
ME AN ORDER FOR THIS REMARKABLE | 
ONION. ae ye je 
Last year I offered $35 in three prizes, for the _ 
largest Silver King Onions grown from my seed. 
They were awarded as follows: fpa h be iceak. 
$20 to Mrs. Alice Thompson, Decatur, Texas, fora — 
Silver King weighing 234 pounds. ert 
$10 to E. Gingery, Delta, Fulton Co., Ohio, for a 
Silver King weighing 2 1-16 pounds. ; 
$5 to Samuel Fleemer, Pataha, Wash. Ter., for a 
Silver King weighing 2pounds. > Ce aa 
_ While these prizes were not awarded to as — 
heavy onions as I expected, yet all will acknowl- 
to reach the first year, from 
Now for 1885, let us see i 
CANNOT BE SURPASSED. | 
ment I this year offer 
jhe black seed. 
these weights — 
an extra induce-— 
om my seed 
ize will be awa 
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