COLE'S ONION SEED. 



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ilammolh Prize Taker Onion. 



MAMMOTH PRIZE TAKER. This has 

 proved to be an excellent keeper of finest flavor, 

 handsome shape and enormous size, many single 

 onions having been rais3d to weigh 5 lbs., from 

 seed the first year. It is of the same type as those 

 immense imported onions which can be seen in 

 fruit stores and always command a very high price. 

 The Prize Taker grows" always to a perfect globe | 

 shape, with bright, straw-colored skin, the necks I 

 are very small and the onions always ripen up 

 hard. An excellent onion for the market and home 

 garden. Our seed is the genuine American grown. 

 Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., 14 lb. 40 cts., lb. $1.35. 



MAMMOTH POMPEII or COPPER KING. 

 An extra large variety. Notwithstanding the enor- 

 mous size attained by specimens of this variety, 

 they retain their perfect shape and fine quality. 

 The skin is thin and of a reddish-brown color; the 

 flesh is pure white, very fine grained, and remark- 

 ably mild and pleasant to the taste. Specimens 

 have been exhibited weighing over five pounds. 

 Tliis variety is sure to attract attention at fairs or 

 fruit stands. Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., ^4 lb. 50 

 cts., lb. $1.50. 



nammoth Pompeii Onion 



White Pickling Onion. 



WHITE PICKLING, or Hard Round Sil- 

 ver Skin. Produce uniformly small, 



round and handsome onions with an opaque white 

 skin that does not turn green by exposure to the 

 sun. The onions are very compact and hard, but at 

 the same time crisp and brittle; altogether the best 

 pickling onion. Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., % lb. 

 50 cts., lb. $1.50. 



MAMMOTH SILVER KING. This var- 

 iety grows to a remarkable size. Bulbs are of at- 

 tractive form, flattened, but tnick through. Single 

 bulbs often attain weight of from 2% to 4 lbs., 

 each. The skin is a beautiful silvery white; the 

 flesh is snow-white, and of a particularly mild and 

 pleasant flavor. It matures early and is unifonnly 

 large and perfect form. Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., 

 % lb. 50 cts., lb. $2.00. 



EARLY WHITE BARLETTA. This is a 



very early, small, pure white variety; flesh is firm 

 and mild in flavor. Its extreme earliness and fine 

 quality cannot fail to make it a favorite in every 

 garden. Both for table use and for pickling it is 

 most valuable. Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., % lb. 

 50 cts. 



EARLY WHITE QUEEN. This early 



variety is of very rapid growth, small, beautiful 

 white skin; excellent flavor, and will keep sound 

 until the following summer. Fine for pickling or 

 the table. Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., % lb. 50 

 cts., lb. $2.00. 



ONION SETS 



Sets furnish large onions early, as well as the first 

 green onions for table use. Plant the sets as early 

 in spring as possible, in shallow drills, one foot apart, 

 and four inches between sets. Cover slightly. They 

 can be used in a green state in June, and are rip- 

 ened off by July. One quart of sets is needed for 

 forty feet of drill. 



WHITE MULTIPLIER SETS. These are 



of a pure silvery white color, enormously produc- 

 tive, frequently producing as many as twenty bulbs 

 in a single cluster, of excellent quality and size 

 for bunching green, or can be ripened for use as 

 pickling onions. Good keepers, ha\'ing kept per- 

 fectly sound for a year, but their most important 

 quality is extreme earliness. Per pt. 15 cts., qt. 

 30 cts., V2 pk. 50 cts., pk. $1.00. 



YELLOW BOTTOM SETS. Per pt. 15 



cts., qt. 25 cts. 



RED BOTTOM SETS. Per pt. 15 



cts., qt. 25 cts. 



WHITE BOTTOM SETS. Per pt. 15 cts., 



qt. 25 cts. 



TOP OR BUTTON SETS. Per pt. 15 cts. 



qt. 30 cts. Price of Onion sets by peck or bushel 

 on application. 



