GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 49 
French Market. 
FRENCH MARKET DWARF PROLIFIC. 
One of the earliest and most productive of 
Growing and the White Velvet varieties; 
commencing to bear when six inches high, 
producing a pod at the stem of each leaf, 
and continues bearing until the plant 
reaches its maximum height, seven feet. 
The cut is an exact reproduction of a 
single plant. It will supersede all other 
varieties for market and shipping. 
WHITE VELVET.—A white variety; 
dwarf with round smooth pods, free from 
ridges and seams, and not prickly to the 
touch; very prolific and early. We tried 
this variety thoroughly. It has come up 
to what is claimed for it. We recommend 
it to all who have not tried it. 
PERKINS’ MAMMOTH LONG PODDED. 
Very prolific, pods are an intense green in 
color, of unusual length, 9 to 10 inches, 
very slim and does not get hard. 
DWARF GREEN PROLIFIC. 
distinet variety, very dwarf in growth, but 
enormously productive, producing pods 
within an inch or two of the ground and 
clear to the top. 
TALL GROWING.—This is the variety 
mostly cultivated here. The pods are long, 
round towards the end and tender; longer 
than the square podded kind. 
ONIONS. 
For Price List See Bed Pages in Back of Book. 
Ognon (Fr.), Zwiebel (Ger.), Cebolla (Sp.), Cipollo (Ital.) 
all Okras. It is a cross between the Tall 
CULTURE. 
section. 
The Onion is one of the most important vegetables planted in this 
Thousands of barrels are annually shipped from here to the West and North. 
If sown at the proper time, with ordinary cultivation, they will always produce a crop 
and meet with ready sale. 
sells very high. For transplanting, 
pounds to the acre. 
LOUISIANA OR RED CREOLE.—Has 
posed to have been brought here first 
from the south of Europe, we presume 
the bulbs produced but few seeds. It is 
hard to say from what variety this 
Onion originated; having been planted 
here for so long it has become a dis- 
tinct kind. It sis. not. jas cred. asi, the 
Wethersfield, and not as light as the 
Strassburg; in flavor it is similar to 
both varieteis, but much _= stronger 
than the Italian kinds. In this lati- 
tude the seed should be sown from 
the 15th of September to about the 25th 
of October; if sown sooner, a good many 
will throw up seed stalks, which im- 
pairs the keeping quality of the Onion. 
We sow the seed broadcast, protect the 
seed beds by spreading green moss over 
them, which is removed every evening 
and replaced in the morning. Some 
gardeners use lataniers for covering the 
bed. When the seed is coming up, say 
in 7 or 9 days, the cover has to be re- 
moved entirely; but if the weather is 
dry thé watering has to be continued: 
They thrive best in loamy soil. Can be 
planted in the same ground for years, and 
require no rotation as other crops. When 
the plants have reached the size of a goose 
quill they are transplanted into rows, 
which can be from one to two feet apart, 
according to the mode of cultivation, and 
about five or six inches apart in the rows. 
The ground should be prepared before set- 
ting out the plants. We generally short- 
en the tops and roots. In April the onion 
The seed is not a sure crop every year and some years it 
8 pounds to the acre; 
when planted for sets, 30 
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will be ready to be taken up. In sections 
where it is too cold to sow Onion seed in 
the fall, the Creole seed can be sown in 
January and February; in that case they 
should be sown very thinly in drills, 
thinned out to a proper stand, and by the 
end of spring they will produce good size 
Onions. Growers here use very little, if 
any, fertilizers, but it can ke used with ad- 
vantage. For spring sowing we _ recom- 
mend the Berumda seed. The seed of the 
Creole Onion, which we offer, is grown for 
Frotscher’s Large Purple Eggplant, the Standard for More than Thirty Years. 
