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W. F. Allen's Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 



ONIONS. 



The Prize Taker Onion. 



WHITE PORTUGAL.-This is a standard white 

 variety for general culture. The bulbs grow to good 

 size, ripen early and quite evenly ; it is a good keeper, 

 flesh is mild and sweet, with thin skin; a clear, sil- 

 very white of handsome appearance if the bulbs are 

 gathered as soon as ripe and carefully dried under 

 shelter away from any sunlight. When seed are 

 sown at the rate of twenty-five pounds per acre, it 

 makes bulbs of suitable size and most desirable for 

 pickling. Pkt 5c ; oz. 15c ; quarter pound 50c ; pound 

 $1.60. 



YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS.-This is an im- 

 mense cropper, and will yield more marketable onions 

 to the acre than most other kinds. Our strain of Dan- 

 vers is equal to any, and may be relied on as a first- 

 class cropper. Its points of superiority are earliness 

 in ripening, perfect globe shape, and smallness of the 

 neck : the finest shaped, best colored and largest crop- 

 per of any of the yellow onions. Pkt. 5c ; oz. 15c ; 

 quarter pound 50c ; pound $1.60. 



LARGE REO WETHERSFIELD.-It is often a 



matter of choice as to color in growing onions. To 

 tho^e who prefer a red onion, we recommend the Red 

 Wethersfield. Next to Globe Danvers this variety is 

 most largely grown. It yields fully equal to the Dan- 

 vers. m fact, many growers claim it to be more pro- 

 ductive. Large size, purplish red skin; tlesh white, 

 fine grain ; form round, slightly 

 flattened on the top. Its splendid 

 keeping qualities make it easy to 

 H hold crop for winter when the 

 »sl prices are high. Pkt. 5c ; oz. 15c ; 

 quarter pound 50c ; pound $1.60. 



SOUR PORT RED GLOBE.- 



In many markets, especially in the 

 North and West, the dark red 

 onions are preferred ; and in spite 

 of the deep color, the flavor is quite 

 as mild as that of the other varie- 

 ties; nothing handsomer can be 

 grown than these dark, richly col- 

 ored globes : the skin is deep rich 

 purplish crimson, with a satin-like 

 gloss ; the inner rings or scales of 

 flesh are slightly tinged with rose 

 pink. An average specimen will 

 weigh about eight or ten ounces. 

 Grown from seed sown directly in 

 the rows and under only ordinary 

 garden culture. Pkt. 5c ; oz. 15c ; 

 auarter pound 50c ; pound $1.60. 



PRIZE TAKER.-This is one 

 of the best of the huge foreign 

 varieties. When started early 

 under glass and transplanted in 

 the open ground, they bottom 

 fairly well ; are nearly free from 

 stiff necks, and when offered for 

 sale always attract marked atten- 

 t i o n . They are not, however, 

 good keepers. The variety is 

 without doubt the largest grown. 

 Under special culture single speci- 

 mens weighing five pounds. I am 

 offering this season only the best 

 American grown seed. Packet 5c: 

 ounce 15c ; quarter pound 50c ; 

 pound $1.60, 



YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS- 



PHILADELPHIA SILVER SKIN. -The bulbs are slightly smaller, flatter 

 and earlier than White Portugal. Sown thickly, about sixty pounds per acre, 

 it produces famous Philadelphia white sets. This is an especially selected 

 strain of Silver Skin which is largely planted for the purpose of raising sets for 

 seed. Pkt. 5c ■ oz. 15c ; quarter lb. 50c ; pound $1.60. 



RERRERS. 



RUBY KING.— The plants grow about two feet high and produce fine crops 

 of handsome large, scarlet fruit which ripens somewhat earlier than any other 

 RUBY KTCG variety. Flesh thick, sweet and mild; especially fine for salad, or stuffed for 

 pkppeb. mangoes. I place this variety at the head of the list because it is generally con- 

 sidered the best of all the varieties. Pkt. 5c : oz. 20c ; qurter lb. 50c ; lb. $1.75. 



