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Deptford, or Essex, Onion. — This variety is very closely 

 allied to the Straw-coloured Vertus, but is a little redder in colour 



a productive and pretty early 

 practice is to sow it in spring ; 



Mulhouse Oi 



and usually less in diameter. It is 

 kind, and keeps well. The general 

 but it is often grown from 

 small bulbs raised in the 

 previous year from thick 

 sowings. These small bulbs 

 form an important article 

 of commerce under the name 

 of Mulhouse Onions. The 

 Brown Spanish, or Oporto, 

 Onion is also frequently 

 grown in the same way. 



Extra Early Flat Red 

 Onion. — An American 

 variety. Bulb very flat, of 



the same size and earliness as the Early White Silver-skinned 

 Onion, but dark red tinged with violet. It is a very distinct kind, 

 and bulbs remarkably early. 



O. Geant de Garganus Blanc. — Corresponding to the American 

 Mammoth Silver King. An Italian variety, in shape and earliness 

 almost the same as the Paris Silver-skin Onion, but larger in size. 



O. Geant de Garganus Rouge. — Corresponding to the American 

 Mammoth Pompeii Onion. A very large onion, deep red in colour, 

 related to O. de Genes. 



Ognon de Genes. — Bulb red, of medium size, often splitting into 

 several cloves. It is earlier and smaller than the Blood-red Flat 

 Italian Onion. 



Large Yellow Dutch Onion. — An American variety. Bulb 



yellow, of medium size, nearly 

 the same shape as that of the 

 Straw-coloured Vertus Onion, 

 but of a more coppery colour, 

 like that of the Danvers Onion. 



Yellow Lescure Onion. — 

 A handsome kind, much grown 

 in the vicinity of Toulouse, 

 and all through Languedoc. 

 It is chiefly adapted for 

 sowing in autumn. The bulb 

 somewhat resembles that of 

 the Niort Pale Red Onion, but 

 is not so flat, and its colour is much more of a yellow or coppery tinge. 



Bright Red Mezieres Onion. — Bulb flat, very broad, sometimes 

 4 or 5 in. across, and about 2 in. thick, of a fine intense red colour, 



Bright Red Mezieres Onion. 



