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Mammoth Prize Taker Onion 



MAMMOTH PRIZE TAKER. This has 

 proved to be an excellent keeper of finest flavor, 

 handsome shape and enormous size, many singlj 

 onions have 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 command 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 onion 

 always ripens up hard. Per pkt. 5 cts., oz., 

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



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, delici- 

 ous in flavor, in fact is equal in every respect to 

 the popular Spanish onions. Twelve bulbs have 

 been known to weigh thirty pounds. To attain 

 its largest size it should be sown early in spring 

 in the hotbed and later be transplanted. It 

 is a good keeper for a large onion, and for 

 eating raw we caa recommend it for Ha mild 



pungent flavor. "When this variety is better 

 known it will rank among the most popular 

 sorts. Per pkt. 10 cts., 12 pkts. 15 cts., oz. 

 125 cts. 



White* Pickling" Onion 



WHITE PICKLING, or Hard Round Silver 

 Skin. Produce uniformly small, round an'l 

 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 brittle; alto- 

 gether the best pickling onion. Per pkt. 5 cts., 

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



MAMMOTH SILVER KING. This variety 

 grows to a remarkable size. Bulbs are of at- 

 tractive form, flattened, but thick through. 

 Single bulbs often attain weight of from 2% 

 to 4 lbs. each. The skin is a beautiful silvery 

 white; the flesh is snow-white, and a particular- 

 ly 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. This variety is of 

 medium size, wonderfully hard and solid, and 

 most attractive for market. They are extreme- 

 ly 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 

 indefinitely, and we think from its firmness and 

 hardness that it will keep in good condition 

 longer than any other onion known. The color 

 nf the skin is a clear amber-brown. 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 variety; 

 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., 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 four 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 produc- 

 tive, 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, hav- 

 ing kept perfectly sound for a year, but their 

 most important quality is extreme earliness. 

 Per pt. 15 cts., qt. 30 cts., by express, Yz pk. 

 50 cts., pk. $1.00. 



YELLOW BOTTON SETS. Per 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. Per pt. 15 ctg., qt. 

 30 cts., by express, pk. $1.00. Price- of onion 

 sets is variable and subject to change; price 

 per bushel oo application. 



