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when they will continue increasing in size, instead of 

 producing seed, as is the case with American onions. 



New Neapolitan Marzagole.— A large, beautiful, 

 flat, white-skmned variety, said to be the earliest of 

 all, and a good keeper. It can be sown m February or 

 March, and will mature a crop very early in the season; 

 or sown in July, the crop will be matured the same sea- 

 son. In the South, the seed can be sown in the autumn, 

 and large onions produced in March. 



Giant White Italian Tripoli. 



Giant White Italian Tripoli.— A large, white, flat 

 onion of mild and excelle»t flavor, of most beautiful 

 form, pure white skin, and will produce a somewhat 

 larger onion from seed than our White Portugal ; but to 

 attain the full size, small bulbs should be set out the sec- 

 ond spriag. 



New Queen. 



New Queen. — A silver-skinned variety, of quick 

 growth and remarkable keeping qualities. If sown in 

 February, it will produce onions one to two inches in 

 diameter early in summer, which will keep good until 

 the following summer ; and if sown in July, will be 

 ready to pull late in autumn, and be sound and fit for 

 use till the following autumn. Particularly valuable for 

 pickles, as if sown thickly they will mature perfect, hard 

 onions fromone-half to three-quarters of an inch in di- 

 ameter. 



Onion Sets. 



1 op Onion. 



BULBS. 



Top Set, or Button.— Produces no seed, but instead, 

 a number of small bulbs or onions, about the size ef 

 acorns, on the top of the stalk. These little bulbs are 

 osed instead of seed, and wil! produce a large onion, 

 maturing much earlier than from seed. The large onion 

 produces the top onion, and the little top ©nion produces 

 the large onion. 



Red 6 otto m Sets.— 

 Produced bysowingrheseed 

 of the Large Red Wethers- 

 field very thickly m the 

 spring, and not thinning 

 out. They mature under 

 this method when about 

 half an inch through. They 

 are then used precisely as 

 top onions are, setting them 

 out in the spring, instead of 

 sowing seed. 

 Yellow Bottom Sets.— identical with the preced- 

 ing, except in color. They are used in the same manner 

 and produced from black seed of the Yellow Dutch, or 

 Yellow Danvers varieties. 



White Bottom Sets.— The seed of the White Sil- 



verskin or White Portugal varieties is used to produce 



tV-^ white set. They do not keep as well as the red or 



llow, but produce beautiful, white onions, early in 



.ne season. 



English Multiplier. — Esteemed by many as the best 

 variety for early use. It is large-sized, of a mild, sweet, 

 sugary flavor; very early, and a large producer. The 

 large onion produces several small ones in clusters 

 around the bulb, growing mostly on the top of the 

 ground. 



Potato Onion. — Produces a quantity of young bulbs 

 on the parent root, which should be planted early in 

 spring, in rows eighteen inches apart, six inches apart 

 in the row, and covered one inch deep. They should 

 be earthed up like potatoes as they continue to grow. 

 With this and the preceding variety, the large bulbs 

 produce the small, and the small the large alternately. 



Any of the preceding six varieties can be recommend- 

 ed as a small, early crop for family use and early home 

 market, but not as a main crop, the increase of mar- 

 ketable onions over the seed being too small. Of all 

 the various modes of propagation, solving the seed for 

 a main crop deserves the first rank. Its cheapness, 

 compared with other tnodes, the facility with which 

 it is sowed, the early seasan when the crop viay be 

 gathered in^ and the superior, fitie bulbs which it 

 produces^ recommend it to general use. 



