DE JONG FLORAL AND SEED CO., PELLA, IOWA 



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Mammoth Prize Taker Onion 



MAMMOTH PRIZE TAKER. This has proved to 

 be an excellent keeper of finest flavor, hand- 

 some shape and enormous size, many single on- 

 ions have been raised to weight 3 lbs., from 

 seed the first year. It is of the same type as 

 those im.mense imported onions which can be 

 seen in fruit stores and always command a 

 very high price. The Prize Taker grows al- 

 ways to a perfect globe shape, with bright, 

 straw-colored skin, the necks are very small 

 a.id the onion always ripens up hard. Per pkt. 

 10 ct^.. oz. 40 cts. 



Ailsa Craig 



AILSA CRAIG. One of the largest of onions. It 

 is a very handsome, oval shaped variety with 

 pale straw-colored skin, flesh snow-white, de- 

 licious in flavor, in fact is equal in every re- 

 spect to the popular Spanish onions. Twelve 



bulbs have been known to weigh thirty pounds. 

 To attain its largest size it should be sown 

 early in spring in the hot-bed and later be 

 transplanted. It is a good keeper for a large 

 onion, and for eating raw we can recommend it 

 for its mild pungent flavor. Per pkt. 10 cts., 

 oz. 40 cts. 



WHITE PICKLING, or Hard Round Silver Skin. 



Produce uniformly small, round and handsome 

 onions with an opaque white skin that does not 

 turn green by exposure to the sun. The onions 

 are very compact and hard, but at the same 

 time crisp and brittle; altogether the best pick- 

 ling onion. Per pkt. 10 cts., oz. 35 cts. 



MAMMOTH SILVER KING. This variety grows 

 to a remarkable size. Bulbs are of attractive 

 form, flattened, but thick through. Single bulbs 

 often attain weight of from 2 to 4 lbs. each. 

 The skin is a beautiful silvery white; the flesh 

 is snow-white, and a particularly mild and 

 pleasant flavor. It matures early and is uni- 

 formly large and perfect form. Per pkt. 10 cts., 

 oz. 35 cts. 



AUSTRALIAN BROWN. This variety is of me- 

 dium size, wonderfully hard and solid, and 

 most attractive for market. They are extreme- 

 ly early in ripening, and never make any stiff- 

 necks or scallions. Every seed seems to pro- 

 duce a good-sized onion, and the bulb begins 

 to form very quickly. It has the reputation of 

 keeping indefinitely, and we think from its 

 firmness and hardness that it will keep in good 

 condition longer than any other onion known. 

 Per pkt. 10 cts., oz. 35 cts. 



ONION SETS 



Sets furnish large onions early, as well as ths 

 first green onions for table use. Plant the sets 

 as early in the spring as possible, in shallow 

 drills, one foot apart, and two inches between 

 sets. Cover slightly. They can be used in a 

 green state in June, and are ripened off by July. 

 One quart of sets is needed for forty feet of drill. 



PARCEL POST. If customers want their Onion 

 Sets prepaid, remit us the following amount for 

 postage. For the 1st and 2nd zones from Pel- 

 la, for ^2 pk. 10 cts., for 1 pk. 15 cts.; for the 

 3rd zone, for pk. 15 cts., for 1 pk. 25 cts. 



WHITE MULTIPLIER SETS. These are of a 

 pure silvery white color, enoromously produc- 

 tive, frequently producting as many as twenty 

 bulbs in a single cluster, of excellent quality 

 and size for bunching green, or can be ripened 

 for use as pickling onions. Good keepers, hav- 

 ing kept perfectly sound for a year, but their 

 most important quality is extreme earliness. 

 Per pt. 20 cts., qt. 35 cts., by express, V2 pk. 

 •SI. 00, pk. $2.00. 



YELLOW BOTTOM SETS. Per. pt. 15 cts., qt. 

 25 cts., by express, pk. 75c, pk. $1.25. 



RED BOTTOM SETS. Per pt. 15 cts., qt. 25 cts. 

 by express, ^2 pk. T5c, pk. $1.25. 



WHITE BOTTOM SETS. Per pt. 15 cts., qt. 25 

 cts., I2 pk. 75c, pk. $1.25. 



YELLOW MULTIPLIER. Of fine flavor. Grow 

 in clusters. Per pt. 20 cts., qt., 35 cts., V2 pk. 

 SI. 00, pk. SI. 50. 



EGYPTIAN or PERENNIAL. They may be 

 planted either in the spring without any pro- 

 tection and furnish the earliest green onion, 

 will also supply you with green onions in the 

 fall. Per pt. 15 cts., qt. 25 cts., by express 

 li; pk. 65 cts., pk. S1.25. 



