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JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA 



Pedigree 

 Stocks 



Johnson & Stokes' High -Grade Onion Seed 



No one can appreciate the value of reliable seeds better than those who have been once dis- 

 appoluted. Too luuch care cannot be exercised in selecting your supply of onion seed. There is no 

 vegetable in which the quality of the seed exerts a greater influence upoii the crop. Our stock is all 

 grown froui choice bulbs, selected carefully by baud, and is unsurpassed in this coun- 

 try. 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 increased so rapidly that we have been obliged 

 to larg-ely increase our facilities for growing every year for several years past. 



PHILADELPHIA-GKOWN SEED, or that raised in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania, 

 is unquestionably earlier than New England seed, and still earlier compared with Western seed. This 

 is an important feature, as the early market onions always bring the highest prices. The growth con- 

 clusively proves our claim, the Philadelphia seed making bulbs of better quality for keeping or imme- 

 diate 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, North or South. 

 To do this they should be sown as soon as possible in the spring, no matter if the weather is cold, 

 so the soil woi-ks up well. This gives them a good start ahead of the weeds before hot weather. 



One ounce will sow one hundred feet of drill. To grow large onions from seed, five pounds to the 

 acre ; to grow small sets, fifty to sixty pounds to the acre are required. 



Short crops of 1898. The crops of onion seed have been shorter than for many years. Our 

 seed, however, is unusually plump and heavy, and subject to our greenhouse test in Mother Earth, 

 shows perfect germinating power. Our prices are as low as the best American Onion Seed of 

 new crop can be sold for this season. Beware of old Onion seed and imported seed at low prices. 



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Philadelphia Yellou-i Globe Danveps Onion — Pedigree Seed 



This improved variety is pronounced by onion growers, who now grow it in preference to all 

 other onions, the very best strain in cultivation. It is the earliest yellow globe variety, large in 

 size, uniformly perfect in shape and the largest cropper, producing from seed 1000 bushels to 

 the acre with good cultivation. It is also the most reliable for bottoming, 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 our Pedigree Tested Seed, crop of 1898, grown from selected hand-picked bulbs : Pkt., lOc; 

 oz., 20c.; lib., 50c.; lb., §1.60, postpaid ; lb., §1.50; 5-lb. lots for $7.25 ; 10 lbs. and over, $1.40 per lb., 

 by express or freight. 



^ Special Offer on 4 ^ost Popular fhlladelphia Onions 



Fni* ^ ^ ^C\ ^® "'^^ deliver free to any post-office in the United States 4 lbs. of either Philadelphia 

 r Ul ^vJ.dU Yellow Globe Danvers, Philadelphia Extra Early Red Flat, Round Yellow Danvers, 



— — or Philadelphia Yellow Dutch or Strasburg for $5.50. Customers have the privilege of 



ordering 4 lbs. of one variety, or they can order 1 lb. of each of the four varieties. All you have to do is 

 to make up an order for 4 lbs. of the above sorts and send §5.50. 



A BOOK WHICH AIL ONION GROWERS SHOULD HAVE 



Full information for Culture, Storage and Marketing of both onions and onion sets, 

 will be found in our new up-to-date book, " Farm Gardening," which costs but 50c., or can be 

 had free for the asking with your order, if it amounts to $3.00. See page 13. 



