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Very Early Rose-coloured Port Saintc-Marie Onion. 



James' Keeping Onion. — Bulb top-shaped, flattened on top 

 and narrowing into a blunt cone towards the roots ; the neck is 

 slender; a very interesting variety of a very pretty chamois or 

 salmon colour. Its cnief 

 merit is its keeping 

 quality, the bulbs of the 

 true James' remaining 

 firm and solid up to mid- 

 summer in the following 

 year. 



Very Early Rose- 

 coloured Port Sainte- 

 Marie Onion. — A small 

 flat bulb resembling the 

 Queen Onion in shape 

 and size, but with rose- 

 coloured, sometimes al- 

 most red, skin. The 

 neck is very small and 

 the leaves scanty, and early to die off. Of all coloured onions, 

 it is much the earliest, and among the silver-skins it is second 

 only to the Early Queen by a few days. It is extensively grown 

 and very popular in Southern France. 



Market Favourite Keeping Onion (6>. de Maze). — A very 

 pretty Onion of choice quality, which forms with the James' 

 Keeping Onion the link between the yellow and the red Onions. 

 It is in fact a salmon shade between yellow and rose. In shape, it 

 is very different from the James' Onion in being flat. The 

 foliage is scant and light. A half-early kind, bulbing rapidly, and 



keeping well. Easy to culti- 

 vate, it is a good Onion for 

 the kitchen-garden as well as 

 for the market-grower. 



Common Pale Red 

 Onion. — Bulb medium-sized, 

 flattened, 2 to nearly 3 in. 

 in diameter, and from |- to 

 if in. thick, somewhat irre- 

 gular in shape ; outer coats 

 coppery pink ; inner ones a 

 darker shade, changing to a 

 purple ; neck rather thick ; 

 leaves pretty numerous, short, 

 and light green in colour. This is a hardy variety, and is very 

 generally grown. It is a half-early kind, and keeps tolerably 

 well, although it readily parts with its outer coats, like the kinds 



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Market Favourite Keeping Onion. 



