ONION 



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O. Rouge Pale de Tournon. — A very handsome, pink-tinged, 

 yellow Onion, of rather large size, flat, and early. It greatly 

 resembles the O. Jaune de Lescure mentioned above. 



Two-bladed Onion. — A very early small-sized kind, copper- 

 red in colour, with a fine neck, almost sunk in the bulb. When 

 this variety comes true from seed, most of the plants have only two 

 or three leaves each, from which peculiarity it takes its name. 



O. de Vaug"irard. — This name is sometimes given to a some- 

 what earlier form of the Early Paris Silver-skinned Onion, but the 

 variety is not well established nor very constant. 



O. de Villefranche. — A handsome, medium-sized, very flat, and 

 fine-necked variety, yellow pink or salmon colour. It is an early 

 kind, keeps well, and is not unlike the Lescure Onion. 



Wethersfield Onion. — A very handsome American variety, 

 with a very smooth, clean-skinned bulb, almost spherical, or slightly 

 flattened at the ends. In shape and size it comes very near the 

 Danvers Yellow Onion, and, like that variety, has an exceedingly 

 fine neck ; but it differs entirely from it in colour, being of a bright 

 red, like the Mezieres Onion. The leaves are slender, long, and of 

 a clear green colour. This a half-early kind, and keeps well. In 

 its original form the bulb was quite spherical, but at the present 

 day it is seldom found, even in America, without having the ends 

 somewhat flattened, and wherever the primitive form occurs it is 

 known as the Large Red Globe Onion. 



White Globe Onion. — Under this name is grown in England 

 a variety with a spherical bulb of the colour of the White Spanish 

 Onion — that is, a pale or greenish yellow. It is important not to 

 confound this variety with the Globe Silver-skinned Onion, which 

 is really white. 



WELSH ONION, or CIBOULE 



Allium fistula sum ^ L. Liliacece. 



French, Ciboule. German, Schnittzwiebel. Flemish, Pijplook. Dtitch, Bieslook. 

 Danish, Purlog. Italian, Cipolleta. Spanish, Cebolleta. Portuguese, Cebolinha. 



Native of Siberia or the East. — Perennial, but cultivated as an 

 annual or biennial. — A plant very closely allied to the Common 

 Onion in its botanical characteristics, although it does not form a 

 bulb, properly so called, but only a small enlargement at the base 

 of each shoot. Leaves numerous, hollow, rather dark green in 

 colour, somewhat glaucous, and lO to 14 in. long. In the second 

 year the flower-stem makes its appearance and grows about 20 in. 

 high ; it is swollen about the middle and terminates in a spherical 

 •cluster of flowers like those of the Common Onion. 



Culture. — The plant may be propagated by division, as each 

 of the stems which are swollen at the base will speedily produce 



