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Danvers Yellow Onion natural size). 



brazen-yellow ; leaves light green, fairly broad 

 mid-season variety, very hardy and 

 productive, and keeps remarkably 

 well. This is the sort most generally 

 grown and cultivated in England. 

 There are many varieties of it grown, 

 of which Nuneham Park, Banbury 

 Improved, Naseby jMammoth, and 

 Cantello's Prize are the principal. 



Danvers Yellow Onion. — Bulb 

 spherical or slightly flattened, coppery 

 yellow, and a little redder than the 

 Brown Portugal, or Vertus, Onion, 

 usually from 2% to 3^ in. in diameter, 

 and nearly the same in thickness ; 

 coats numerous and closely set; neck 

 very fine, as is also the disc or plate 

 from which the roots issue ; leaves 

 medium-sized, and light green. This 

 is an excellent early kind, and keeps 

 very well. It is as well adapted for field culture as for the 

 kitchen garden, but should always be sown in spring. When 



sown in autumn, we have always 

 found it to run to seed in the 

 following spring without bulbing 

 to any extent. It is an American 

 variety, and when first introduced 

 into France (about 1850) was 

 quite spherical in shape, but 

 now it grows almost always 

 more or less flattened, not only 

 in European gardens, but also 

 in its native country. 



The English and American 

 varieties Australian Brown, 

 C7'anston's Excelsior, Crews Globe^ 

 Golden Ball, Michigan Yellow 

 Globe, Up-to-Date, and Yellow 

 Globe, some small differences in 

 size, colour, and earliness apart, 

 may all be considered as de- 

 rivations of the Danvers Yellow. 



Yellow Trebons Onion. — 

 Bulb usually pear-shaped, more 

 or less elongated, about as long 

 broad, generally 3 to 4 in. every way, narrowed at the neck, 



Yellow Trebons Onion natural size). 



