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Johnson & Stokes' Specialties for Market Gardeners. 



NEW^ SPANISH ONION, MADRID GIANT. 



This new variety which we first introduced into America last spring, is the largest and most popular onion grown around 

 Madrid, the Spanish Capital^from which we have obtained the seed. It possesses the large size, mild flavor, excellent 

 keeping, and all other good qualities of the celebrated Spanish King, but differs from that variety in its handsome red 

 skin, which, in contrast with its pure white, fine grained flesh, attracts marked attention in market, when offered for 

 sale. It is also claimed by the Spanish growers that the Madrid Giant grows quicker and can be growu at least one-third 

 larger than any other sort. We believe there is a great future here for these Spanish varieties of onion, as instead of the 

 tops dying down or running to seed, as is the case with the American varieties, they keep on growing the entire season, thus 

 attaining enormous weights and dimensions. A number of specimens sent into us by customers, to whom we had sent 

 seed, had attained a weight of five pounds and over. They are worthy of a trial from all market gardeners and onion growers. 

 Pkt., 15c.; oz.,35c.; i< lb., $1.25; lb.,S4.00. 



THE SPANISH KING, OR PRIZE-TAKER ONION. 



We first introduced this handsome Spanish variety in America three years ago and have received hundreds of testimonial 

 letters from growers, who all agree in prououncing the Spanish King the largest, handsomest and most profitable variety they 

 have ever grown . The outside skin is of a rich yellow color, while the flesh is white, sweet, mild and tender. They bottom well, 

 are free from stiff necks, and have produced more bushels (1137) of marketable onions to the acre than any other variety 

 known in America. It attracts marked attention when offered for sale in the city fruit stores and markets, and although only 

 offered to a limited extent has always been picked out and selected at three times the price of any other sort on sale. Oz., .30c.; 

 ^4Ib., 85c.; lb., 8.3.00. 



