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Washing and Drying Onion Seed on One of Our California Ranches 



ONION 



In our selecting operations particular attention is paid to curing quality and keeping quality 



Our bulbs are subjected to a long storage period to eliminate any occasional poor keeping indi- 

 viduals before planting the mother bulbs in the spring for stock seed. 



The trials of onion, at our Experimental Gardens near Detroit, are always planted about May 

 1st. The earUer varieties such as Extra Early Red Flat are always fully mature in 125 days or less 

 and the late varieties about 2 weeks later, that is the latter part of September. 



Our stocks of onions are superior in every respect. 



Code Word 



AJIsa Craig oak 



Verv popular in Great Britain, but not widely used in America. 

 Bulbs very large, light yellow, lightly tinged with bronze, oblong- 

 globe, hard and keep well. 



lib. 



25 lbs. 



or more 



or more 



per lb. 



per lb. 



$1.40 



S1.25 



Australian Brown obedience 



Standard market variety of notably long keeping quality; splen- 

 did for sets. Bulbs flat, but rather deep m shape; skin thick and 

 chestnut brown; flavor strong and flesh cooks dark. 



Ebenezer ; oblique 



Produces excellent sets of extraordinary keeping quahty which 

 planted in the spring produce early mature onions for market. 

 Bulbs medium size; deep-flat in shape; pure deep yellow; very 

 firm and hard. The true type of this and of Japanese is the same. 



Extra Early Red, Flat oddity 



Very early. Standard for very early market use. Bulbs mediima 

 size, flat, purplish-red. Ten days earlier than Red Wethersfield 

 and bulbs not as deep in form nor as dark. 



Ohio Yellow Globe ophide 



Standard very widely used variety of splendid keeping quality. 

 Bulbs oblong globe shape at upper half and a trifle flattened at 

 the base; skm pure deep yellow; flesh firm and hard. Michigan 

 Yellow Globe is the same. 



1.00 



1.40 



1.25 



1.05 



.90 



1.25 



1.15 



.95 



