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Johnson & Stokes' Specialties for Market Gardeners. 



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No market gardeners can appreciate the value of reliable seedi better than those 

 who have been once disappointed, and too much care cannot be exercised in selecting 

 your supply. There is no vegetable where the quality of the seed exerts a greater influ- 

 ence upon the crop than in onions. Our stock is all grown from choice bulbs, 

 selected carefully by hand, and is unsurpassed in this country. During our 

 whole business career as seedsmen, it has always been our aim to make quality a first 

 consideration, price afterwards, and in no one crop have we met with greater reward 

 for our efforts lliau in onions, the demand for our seed having increased so rapidly that 

 we have been obliged to doiible our faci.lities for growing everj' year for several years 

 past. 



Tljere is no crop, perhaps, more sure than that of onions. Kich soil, with a eood 

 application of manure every year, and proper attention, will almost invariably insure a 

 good crop. Five hundred bushels per acre is a medium crop, while from eight to twelve 

 hundred bushels are not unusual under the best cultivation. There are three varieties 

 of onions commonly raised, namely, red, white and yellow. The yellow ones take the 

 lead, as they are more hardy, grow larger, and bear handling better than either of the 

 other sorts. Onions, unlike most other crops, may be raised on the same ground fur an 

 indefinite length of time. 



PHILrADELPHIA-OKOWN SEED, or such raised in that portion of Pennsylvania, is unquestionably earlier than 

 New England seed, and still more so as compared with Western seed. This is an important feature, as the "early marketed 

 onions always bring the highest prices. The growth conclusively proves the assertion, Philadelphia seed making bulbs of 

 better quality for keeping or immediate use, either as sets or full-sized onions, long before seed from any other locality. 

 Large, full-sized onions can be grown from our seed the first season in any section of the United States, both North and South, 

 at no greater cost than carrots, parsnips beets, rumba.gas, or the onion sets themselves, while the net return per acre will be 

 from two to five times as great. Five poui\ds of seed will sow an acre for this purpose. To grow small sets, fifty to sixty 

 pounds to the acre is required. Please read "What Onion Giowers Say," on page 52 of Johnson & Stokes' Garden and Farm 

 Manual for ISOO. 



TESTED.— Our seed Is all of 1889 crop, and is unusually plump and heavy, and we have, as is our invariable custom ^vith 

 all our seed, given the seed the most thorough sprouting tests, aud find the germinating percentage to avemge exceedingly 

 high this spn.^nn. . . _ ■ 



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FHILfll^ELFHlfl YELLOW QLOBE bflNVERS ONION. 



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 This improved variety is pronounced hv all market gardeners and onion growers everywhere, who have tried it, the very 

 best strain of Yellow Danvers in cultivatit «•• It is ihe earliest yellow variety, largest in size, uniformly perfect in shape, 

 the largest cropper and one of the best Keepers of all American onions. In fact, it is everything that could be desired as a 

 market or table onion. Prices of seed grow n from selected , hand-picked bulbs : Oz., 15c.; }4 lb., 35c.; lb., S1.20 ; 5 lbs., Sl.lO per 

 lb.; 10 lbs. and over, .$1.00 per lb. 



