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PECIALTIESiTK^iaa 



OUR REDIGREE 



No one can appreciate the value of reliable seeds better than those wlio liave beea 

 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 influence upon the crop- 

 than in onions. Our stock is all growni from choice bulbs, selected carefully by band, 

 and is unsurpassed in tbis covinti-y. 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 elfbrts than in onions, the demand 

 for our seed having increased so rapidly that we have been obliged to double our facil- 

 ities for growing every year for several years past. 



CUXTUKE. — There is no crop, perhaps, more sure than that of onions. Rich soil, 

 with a good application of manure every year, and proper attention, Avill almost invari- 

 ably insure a good crop. Five hundred bushels per acre is a medium crop, while from 

 oigiit to twelve liundred bushels are not imusual, 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 for an indefinite length of time without anv deterioration in quality or quantity. 

 PHILADELFHI.\-GKOWN .SEED, or such raised in that portion of iPennsyl vania^ 

 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, rutaba- 

 gas, 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 pounds to the acre is required. Please read " What Onion Grow- 

 ers .'-iu\"." on oilier pages. 



iFflOWHOTOGIlAPH TAKEN ON OUI^PENNSYlVaN 



PEDIGREE 



This improved variety is pronounced by all market gardeners and onion growers everywhere xvho have tried it, the 

 very best strain of Yello^v Danvers in cultivation. We have hundreds of such testimonials on file in our office, and regret we 

 have not room on succeeding pages to publish more of them. It is the earliest yellow variety, largest in size, most perfect 

 in shape, the largest cropper and the best keeper of all American onions. In fact, it is everything that eould be desired 

 as a market or table onion. Prices of seed grown from selected, hand-picked bulbs: Pkt., 10c.; oz., 20c.; 34 ^^•' ^c.; lb., 

 81.75. 



