.-. NOVELTIES .-. AND .-. SPECIALTIES 



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No one can appreciate the value of reliable seeds better than those who have been once disap- 

 pointed, and too much care cannot be exercised in selecting your supply. There is no vegetable where 

 the quality of the seed exerts a greater influence upon the crop than in onions. Our stock is all grown 

 from choice bulbs selected carefully by hand, and is unsurpassed in this country. During our whole 

 business career as seedsmen, it has always been our aim to make quality a first consideration, price 

 afterwards, and in no one crop have we met with greater reward for our efforts than in onions, the 

 demand for our seed having increased so rapidly that we have been obliged to double our facilities for 

 growing every year for several years past. 



PHOTOGRAPH OF A GROWING CROP OF OUR PFDIGRICE OXION SFICD, ON OUR PENNSYIvVANIA FARM. 



PHILADELPHIA-GROWN SEED, or such raised in that portion of Pennsylvania, is unquestionably 

 earlier than New England seed, and still more so as compared with Western seed. This is an important 

 feature as the early marketed onions always bring the highest prices. The growth conclusively proves 

 the assertion, Philadelphia seed making bulbs of better quality for keeping or immediate use either as 

 sets or full-sized onions, long before seed from any other locality Large, full-sized onions can be grown 

 from our seed the first season in any section of the United States, both North and South, at no greater 

 cost than carrots, parsnips, beets, ruta-bagas, or the onion sets themselves, while the net return per acre 

 will be from two to five times as great Five pounds of seed will sow an acre for this purpose. To grow 

 small sets, fifty to sixty pounds to the acre is required. 



- - THE SHORT CROPS OF" 189h - - 



Owin^ to the scarcity and liigh prices of onions in the spring of 1891, the acreage planted for seed purposes tliroughout 

 tlie United States was, from the best information obtainable, less than one-half ihat of 1889 and 1890. The yield of seed 

 too in many sections has been very light and the total crops are much shorter than for several years v>a^t. As under these 

 circumstances prices must advance very materially with the season, we advise all who want to take advantage of the prices 

 oflered below to order early. Write for special prices on larger lots. For prices by mail, postage paid, see pages56-60. 



Onion Seed by Freight or Express. 



5 lb. Lots. 10 lb. Lots. 

 Per Ih. Per lb. 

 Early Round Yellow Danvers, . . $1 75 $1 70 

 Philadelphia Yellow Globe Dan- 

 vers, 2 10 2 00 



Philadelphia Yellow Dutch or 



Strasburg, I 85 I 80 



Southport Yellow Globe, .... I 85 I 80 



New Golden Ball, 2 60 2 50 



Onion Seed by Freight or Express. 



5 lb. Lots. 



Per lb. 



$1 70 



I 70 



i 85 



4 85 



3 35 



3 10 



Large White'Globe, 2 85 



Extra Large Red Wethersfield, 

 Philadelphia Extra Early Red, 

 Southport Red Globe, .... 

 American Extra Early Pearl, . 

 New Ivory Ball, . . . . - 

 White Portugal or Silver Skin, 



:10 lb. Lots. 

 Per lb. 

 $1 65 

 I 65 



1 80 

 4 75 

 3 25 

 3 00 



2 75 



