COLE'S ONION SEED. 



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MAMMOTH PRIZE TAKER ONION. 



MAMMOTH PRIZE TAKER. This has proved 

 to be an excellent keeper of finest flavor, hand- 

 some shape and enormous size, many single 

 onions having been raised 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 com- 

 mand a very high price. The Prize Taker 

 grows always to a perfect globe shape, with 

 bright, straw-colored skin; the necks are very 

 small and the onioijs 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. 50 

 cts., lb. $1.50. 



MAMMOTH POMPEII or COPPER KING. An 



extra large variety. Notwithstanding the 

 enormous 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 remarkably mild and 

 pleasant to the taste. Specimens have 

 been exhibited weighing over five pounds 

 This variety is sure to attract atten- 

 tion at fairs or fruit stands. Per pkt. 5 cts 

 oz. 15 cts., 14 lb. 50 cts., lb. If 2.00. 



MAMMOTH POMPEII ONION. 



WHITE PICKLING ONION. 



"WHITE PICKLING, or Hard Round Silver Skin 

 Produce uniformly small, round and hand- 

 some 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., Vi lb. 50 cts., lb. $1.50. 



MAMMOTH SILVER KING. This variety 

 grows to a remarkable size. Bulbs are of 

 attractive form, flattened, but thick through. 

 Single bulbs often attain weight of from 2V2 

 to 4 lbs. each. The skin is a beautiful sil- 

 very white; the flesh is snow-white, and of 

 a particularly mild and pleasant flavor. It 

 matures early and is uniformly large and per- 



I feet form. Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., % lb. 



i 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 earliuessi 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 pick- 

 ling or the table. Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., 

 Vi lb. 50 cts., lb. $1.50. 



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 seta. 

 Cover slightly. They can be used in a green 

 state in June, and are ripened 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 

 tlve, 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, 

 having kept perfectly sound for a year, but 

 their most important quality is extreme earll- 

 ness. Per pt. 15 cts., qt, 30 cts., % 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. 



