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NEW SPANISH ONION, MADRID OIANT. 



This new variety, which we first introduced into Anri erica three years ago, is the largest and most popular onion grown 

 around Madrid, the Spanish Capital, from wlience we obtained the seed. It possesses the large size, mild flavor, excellent 

 keeping, and all other good qualities of the celebrated Spanish King, but differs from that variety in its handsome red 

 skin, which, in contrast with its pure ^vhite, fine grained flesh, attracts marked attention in market. Madrid Giant 

 grows quicker and can be grown at least one-third larger than any other red onion. We believe there is a great future here 

 for these Spanish varieties of onion, as instead of the tops dying down or running to seed, as is the case with American vari- 

 eties, they keep on growing the entire season, thus attaining enormous weights and dimensions. A number of speci- 

 mens sent in to us by c\istomers, to whom we had sent seed, had attained a weight of five pounds and over. They are 

 worthy of a trial from all market gardeners and onion growers. Pkt., 10c. ; oz., 40e.; ^ lb., $1.25 ; lb., $4.00. 



The Spanish. King^ Dr Frize-Taker DniDn. 



We first introduced this handsome variety from Barcelona, Spain, five years ago, and have received hundreds of testi- 

 monial letters from growers, who all agree in pronouncing the Spanish King the largest, handsomest and most profitable 

 variety they ha\e ever grown. It is the large, beautiful onion that is seen every fall on sale at the fruit stores and stands in 

 the large cities. The outside skin is of a rich, yellow straw color, while the flesh is white, sweet, mild and tender. They 

 bottom well, are free from stiff necks, and have produced more bushels (1137) of marketable onions to the acre than any 

 other variety known. In market it attracts marked attention, and although only offered to a limited extent has always been 

 picked out and selected at three times the prices of any other sort on sale. Pkt., lOc; oz., 50c.; 34 'b., $1..50; lb., $5.00. 



That well-known agricultural paper, Orchard and Garden, contained the following in its notes on onion tests: 

 " We grew twenty-three varieties from seed, side by side, the past season. Among all these, the Spanish King, intro- 

 duced by Johnson & Stokes, was the only one with which we were entirely satisfied, and had we sowed the whole patch 

 with this, the product would have been four times as large as it actually turned out. The bulbs were by far the largest of 

 all, and among the rest we had Silver King and a number of other Mammoth sorts." 



