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D. M. Ferry & Go's Descriptive Catalogue, 



varieties is milder, and they seem every way well 

 adapted to culinary purposes : 



Giant Rocca. — A pi im/nense onion. Globular in 

 form; skin light brown ; flesh mild and tender. It will 

 produce a large onion from seed the first season, but to 

 attain the largest growth, the smallest bulbs should be 

 set out the next spring, when they will continue increas- 

 ing in size, instead of producing seed, as is the case 

 with American onions. 



Early Neapolitan Marzajola. — A beautiful, flat, 

 white skinned variety, one of the earliest o/ ali, 

 and a good keeper. It can be sown in 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. — A large, beautiful, 

 pure white, flat onion of mild and excellent flavor, and 

 will produce a somewhat larger onion from seed than 

 our White Portugal ; but to attain the full size, the 

 small bulbs should be set out the next spring 



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 from one-half to three-quarters of an inch 

 in diameter, 



BULBS. 



Top Sets or Buttons. —Produce, instead of seed, a 

 number of small bulbs or onions, about the size of 

 acorns, on the top of the stalk, which, if planted, will 

 produce a large onion, maturing earlier than from 

 seed. The large onion produces the top onion, and the 

 little top onion produces the large onion. 



Red Bottom Sets. — Produced by sowing seed very 

 thickly in the spring, and not thinning out. They ma- 

 ture under this method when about half an inch 

 through, and are used precisely as top onions are, set- 

 ting them out in the spring, instead of sowing seed. 



Yellow Bottom Sets. — Identical with the preced- 

 ing, except in color, and used in the same manner. 



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

 verskin or White Portugal varieties is used to produce 

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



Onion Sets. 



yellow, but produce beautiful, white onions, early in 

 the ! 



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 clus- 

 ters around the bulb grow- 

 ing mostly on the top of 

 the ground. 



Potato Onion. — Produces a quantity of young buibs 

 on the parent root, which should be planted early in 

 spring, in rows eighteen inches apart, six inches apart 

 in the row, and co\'ered one inch deep. With this and 

 the preceding variety, the large bulbs produce the small 

 and the small the large alternately. 



An}' 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 Taiions modes of propagation., solving the seed for 

 a jiini I! crop deserves the first rank. Its cheapness, 

 coiii/arcd with other modes^ tlie facility with which, 

 it is sozued, and the superior bulbs ivhich it produces, 

 recommend it to general use. 



PARSNIP. 



Fr. Panais. — Ger. Pastifiakc. 



The value of the Parsnip as a culinary vegetable is 

 well known, but it is not gen- 

 erally appreciated at its full 

 value for stock feeding. On 

 favorable soil, it yields an 

 immense crop of roots, which 

 are more nutritious than car- 

 rots or turnips, and particu- 

 larly well adapted for dairy 

 stock. 



Culture. — They do the 

 best on a deep, rich, sandy 

 soil, but will make good roots 

 on any soil which is deep and 

 mellow and moderately rich. 

 Do not enrich with fresh 

 manure, as it is apt to make 

 the roots coarse and ill 

 shaped. As the seed is some- 

 times slow to germinate, it 

 should be sown as early as 

 possible; cover one-half inch 

 deep, and press the soil firm- 

 ly over the seed; give fre- 

 quent cultivation, and thin 

 the plants to six or eight to 

 the foot. In digging field 

 crops, they may be thrown 

 out so as to be easily gather- 

 ed, by running a subsoil plow 

 along one side of the row. 



Long Wiiite Dutch, or 

 Sugar. — Roots very long, 

 white, smooth, tender, 

 sugary, and most excellently 

 flavored. Very hardy, and 

 will keep through winter 

 without protection. 



Hollow Crown. — Roots 

 oblong, ending somewhat abruptly, with a" small tap 

 root; grows mostly below the surface; has a very smooth 



Hollow Crown. 



