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•^ JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA Ifi^ 



»"©UR Pedigree 



OnionTEED 



There is no vegetable in which the quality of the seed exerts a greater influence upon the crop than 

 in onions. Our stock is all grown from choice bulbs, selected 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 increased so rapidly that we have been obliged to largely 

 increase our facilities for growing every year for several vears past. 



PHILADELPHIA=GROWN 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. Tlie 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. 



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. For full information for culture, 

 storage and marketing onions and onion sets, see our New Leaf let= Essays on this subject, which will 

 be sent free with all orders for onion seed, when requested. 



Philadelphia Yellow Globe Danvers Onion 



See also colored illustration, made from nature, on back of book 



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 1,000 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. Prices, new crop. Pedigree Tested Seed, grown from selected hand-picked bulbs : 

 pkt., 5c.; oz., 10c. ; J lb., 30c. ; lb., §1.00, by mail, postpaid ; by express or freight, lb., 90c. ; 5 lb. lots for 

 $4.25 ; 10 lbs. at 80c. per lb.; 25 lbs. and over, 75c. per lb. 



