Cole's Seed Store, Pella, Iowa 



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Mammoth Prize Taker Onion 



MAMMOTH PRIZE TAKER. This has prov- 

 ed to be an excellent keeper of finest flav- 

 or, handsome shape and enormous size, 

 many single onions have been raised to 

 weigh 3 lbs., from seed the first year. It 

 is of the same type as those immense im- 

 ported onions which can be seen in fruit 

 stores and always command a very high 

 price. The Prize Taker grows always to a 

 perfect globe shape, with bright, straw-col- 

 ored skin, the necks are very small and the 

 onion always ripens up hard. Per pkt. 5 

 cts., oz. 15 cts., % lb. 40 cts., lb. $1.25. 



Ailsa Craig" 



AILS A CRAIG. One of the largest of onions. 

 It is a very handsome, oval shaped variety 

 with pale straw-colored skin, flesh snow- 

 white, delicious in flavor, in fact is equal 

 in every respect to the popular Spanish on- 

 ions. Twelve bulbs have been known to 

 weigh thirty pounds. To attain its largest 

 size it should be sown early in spring in 



the hot-bed and later be transplanted. It 

 Is a good keeper for a large onion, and for 

 eating raw we can recommend it for its 

 mild pungent flavor. Per pkt. 10 cts., 2 

 pkts. 15 cts., oz. 25 cts. 



WHITE PICKLING, or Hard Round Silver 

 Skin. Produce uniformly small, round and 

 handsome 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 brit- 

 tle; altogether the best pickling onion. Per 

 Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., Y4, 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 2Y 2 to 4 lbs. each. The skin is a 

 beautiful silvery white; the flesh is snow- 

 white, and a particularly mild and pleasant 

 flavor. It matures early and is uniformly 

 large and perfect form. Per pkt. 5 cts., 

 oz. 15 cts., % lb. 50 cts., lb. $1.50. 



AUSTRALIAN BROWN. Tins variety is of 

 medium size, wonderfully hard and solid, 

 and most attractive for market. They are 

 extremely early in ripening, and never 

 make any stiff necks or scallions. Every 

 seed seems to produce a good-sized onion, 

 and the bulb begins to form very quickly. 

 It has the reputation of keeping indefinite- 

 ly, and we think from its firmness and 

 hardness that it will keep in good condi- 

 tion longer than any other onion known. 

 Per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., % lb. 40 cts., 

 lb. $1.25. 



EARLY WHITE QUEEN, or BARLETTA. 



This is a very early, small, pure white va- 

 riety; flesh is firm and mild in flavor. Its 

 extreme earliness 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., 

 14 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 the spring as possible, in 

 shallow drills, one foot apart, and two inches 

 between sets. 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 pro- 

 ductive, frequently producing as many as 

 twenty bulbs in a single cluster, of excel- 

 lent 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 earliness. Per pt. 20 

 cts., qt. 35 cts., by express, y 2 pk. 60 cts., 

 pk. $1.15. 



YELLOW BOTTOM SETS. Ptr pt. 15 cts., 

 qt. 25 cts., by express, pk. 75 cts. 



RED BOTTOM SETS. Per pt. 15 cts., qt. 25 

 cts., pk. 75 cts. 



WHITE BOTTOM SETS. Per pt. 15 cts., qt. 

 25 cts., pk. $1.00. 



TOP or BUTTON SETS. Por pt. 15 cts., qt. 

 30 cts., by express, pk. $1.10. 



EGYPTIAN or PERENNIAL. They may be 

 planted either in the spring or fall. They 

 come up early in spring without any pro- 

 tection and furnish the earliest green onion, 

 will also supply you with green onions in 

 the fall. Per pt. 12 cts., qt. 20 cts., pk. 

 60 cts. 



