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No one can appreciate the value of reliable seeds 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 greaterinfluence upon the 
crop than in onions. Our stockis 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 than 
in onions, the demand for our seed having inereased so rapidly that we haye been 
obliged to double our facilities for growing every year for several years past. 
There is no crop, perhaps, more sure than that of onions, Rich soil, with a good 
ESS4YS application of manure every year, and proper attention, will almost invariably insure a 
good crop. Five hundred bushels per acre is amedium crop, while from eight to twelve 
HOWAND WHAT TO GROWIN THE SOUTH hundred bushels are not unusual under the best cultivation, There are three varieties 
FORNORTHERN MARKETS of onions commonly raised, namely, red, white and yellow. The yellow ones take the 
CULTURE OF CABBAGEAND ONIONS, WITH lead, as they are more hardy, grow larger, and bear handling better. Onions, unlike 
HINTS FOR STORING AND most other crops, may be raised on the same ground for an indefinite length of time. 
MARKETING. Full information for Culture, Storage and Marketing, of both onions and 
PRE FAMILY VEGETABLE GARDEN. onion sets, will be found in our book of $100 Prize Essays. This book is sent 
ORES CES IES WETANO WHEN TOPEANT» free with all orders to the amount of $3.00 and over. 
WJouNsoN e STOKES SEEDSMEN. PHILADELPHIA-GROWN SEED, or such raised in that portion of Pennsyl- 
217 ©219 MARKET STREET. vania, is unquestionably earlier than New England seed, and still more so as com- 
PHILADELEMIA, 
pared with Western seed. This is an important feature, as the early marketed onions 
always bring the highest prices. The growth conclusively proves the assertion, Phila- 
delphia 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, rutabagas, or the onion sets themselves, 
while the net return per acre will be from two to five times as great. Five pounds of seed will sow an acre for this purpose. 
To grow small sets, fifty to sixty pounds to the acre is required. 
TESTED.—Our seed is all of 1890 crop; is unusually plump and heavy, and we have, as is our invariable custom with all 
our seed, given the seed the most thorough sprouting tests, and find the germinating percentage to average exceedingly high 
this season, notwithstanding the crop is shorter than for several years past. 
Philadelphia Yellow Globe Danvers Onion. 
This improved variety is pronounced by all market gardeners and onion growers everywhere, who have tried it, the 
very best strain of Yellow Danvers in cultivation. We have hundreds of such testimoninals on file in our office, and regret 
we have not room to publish them. It isthe earliest yellow variety, largest in size, most perfect in shape, the largest 
cropper and the best keeper of all American onions. In fact, itis everything that could be desired as a market or table 
onion. Prices of our pedigree seed grown from selected, hand-picked bulbs: Pkt., 10c.; oz., 20c.; 141b., 45¢.; lb., $1.60, 
post-paid; 5 lbs. and over, by express or freight, $1.40 per Ib. 
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