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Rocca, which differs from the Giant Rocca only by its russet 

 colour. 



Pear-shaped Onion. — There are numerous varieties of long- 

 bulbed Onions, which 

 differ from one another 

 in colour and earliness. 

 In these, the broadest 

 part of the bulb is usually 

 nearer to the neck than 

 to the roots, so that the 

 bulb narrows more ab- 

 ruptly at the neck end 

 than it does towards the 

 roots, and resembles a 

 Pear with its stalk down- 

 wards. In Spain a White 

 Pear-shaped Onion is 

 cultivated. This is a late 

 and large-sized kind, often 

 growing nearly 5 in. long 

 and about 3 in. in 



Pear-shaped Onion (5 natural size) 



diameter. In France and Germany there are several other varieties 

 of Pear-shaped Onions with a red or yellow skin, one of which 

 grows so long that it is named the Ox-horn, or Spindle-shaped 

 Onion. These varieties, 

 however, are more curious 

 than useful. 



Tree, Egyptian, or 

 Bulb - bearing, Onion. — 

 Bulb rather flat, coppery 

 in colour. Instead of seeds, 

 the stem produces at the 

 extremity a cluster of small 

 bulbs, of a brown-red colour, 

 from which the plant is 

 propagated. When planted 

 in spring, these small bulbs 

 form large ones by the end 

 of the year, but do not 

 produce any bulblets until 

 the following year. The 

 flesh of the Tree Onion 

 is agreeable, but rather 



Tree, Egyptian, or Bulb-bearing, Onion (yV natural 

 size ; detached bulblets, \ natural size). 



deficient in delicacy of flavour. The bulbs soon decay, but the 

 bulblets keep very well. 



Catawissa Onion. — Some years since a variety was introduced 



