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“OMNSONeSTORES 
This new variety, which we first introduced into America two years ago, is the largest and most popular onion grown 
around Madrid, the Spanish Capital, from whence we 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. Madrid Giant 
grows quicker and can be grown at least one-third larger than any other red onion. We believe there is a great future here 
for these Spanish varieties of onion, as instead of the topsdying down or running to seed, as is the case with American vari- 
eties, they keep on growing the entire season, thus attaining enormous weights and dimensions. A number of speci- 
mens sentin to us by customers, to whom we had sent seed, had attained a weight of five pounds and over. They are 
worthy of atrial from ali market gardeners and onion growers. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 40c.; 14 Ib., $1.25 ; 1b., $4.00. 
The Spanish Kind, or Prize-Taker Onion. 
We first introduced this handsome variety from Barcelona. Spain, four years ago, and have received hundreds of testi- 
monial letters from growers, who all agree in pronouncing the Spanish King the largest, handsomest and most profitable 
variety they have ever grown. It is the large, beautiful onion that is seen every fall on sale at the fruit stores and stands in 
_ the large cities. The outside skin is of a rich, yellow straw color, while the flesh is white, sweet, mild and tender. They 
bottom well, are free from stiff necks, and have produced more bushels (1127) of marketable onions to the acre than any 
_ other yariety known. In market it attracts marked attention, and although only offered to a limited extent has always been 
_ picked out and selected at three times the prices of any other sort on sale. Pkt., 10e.; oz., 30c.; 14 1b., $1.00; Ib., $3.50. 
That well-known agricultural paper, Orchard and Garden, contained the following in its notes on onion tests: 
“ We grew twenty-three varieties from seed, side by side, the past season. Among all these, the Spanish King, intro- 
duced by Jounson & SroxkeEs, was the only one with which we were entirely satisfied, and had we sowed the whole patch 
with this, the product would have been four times as large asit actually turned out. The bulbs were by far the largest of 
all, and among the rest we had Silver King and a number of other Mammoth sorts.”’ 
