130 VEGETABLE GARDENING. 



to $50 per acre. Subsequent cultivation is the same as for a 

 field crop of onions. 



Marketing. — In a general way the directions for marketing 

 onions apply to any other crop. They should be sold as soon 

 as a fair price can be obtained for them and not stored unless 

 ^.here is a good chance of a rise. In some localities there is a 

 large demand for onions for bunching purposes before the bulbs 

 are formed. In these places it will sometimes pay to pull and 

 sell the crop before the tops have died down, but generally it 

 should be allowed to ripen. The foreign kinds, such as can only 

 be raised here by the transplanting method, are generally high- 

 est in price in early autumn and should then be sold. The tops 

 should always be removed before the bulbs are marketed, and 

 all small bulbs should be picked out and sold separately for 

 pickling purposes. Most markets prefer onions of medium size, 

 globular rather than flat in shape, and yellow or white in color 

 rather than red. Very large onions of the common type are not 

 so salable as those of medium size; but of the foreign kinds, the 

 larger the better, and good specimens sometimes weigh as much 

 as two pounds. 



Figure 54.— Varieties of Onions. 1— Southport Yellow Globe. 2— Silver Skin. 

 3— Red Globe. 4— Prizetaker. 5 -Yellow Danvers. 



Onions for the Honne Garden should be raised partly from 

 seed and partly from sets or transplanting. The small onions 

 picked out from one season's crop may be used as sets the next 



