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Mammoth Prize Taker Onion 



MAMMOTH PRIZE TAKER. This has 

 proved to be an excellent keeper of finest flavor, 

 handsome sh:ipe and enormous size, many single 

 onions have been raised to weigh 3 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. 40 cts., lb. $1.25. 



Ailsa Craig* 



AILSA 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 fnct 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 hot bed and later be transplanted. It 

 is a rood keeper for a large onion, and for 



eating raw we can recommend it for its mild 

 pungent flavor. Per pkt. 10 cts., 2 pkts. 15 

 cts., oz. 25 cts. 



White Pickling Onion 



WHITE PICKLING, or Hard Round Silver 



Skin. Produce uniformly small, round and 

 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., Vi 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 seeds 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. 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 two inches between sets. 

 Cover slightly. They can be used in a green state 

 in June, and are ripened off by July. One quatr 

 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. 20 cts., qt. 35cls., by express, V2 pk. 

 60c cts., pk. $1.15. 

 YELLOW BOTTON SETS. Per pt. 15 cts., 



qt. 25 cts., bv express, pk. 75 cts. 

 RED BOTTOM SETS. Per pt. 15 cts., qt. 2C 



cts., pk. 75 cts. 

 WHITE BOTTOM SETS. Per pt. 15 cts., qt 



25 cts., pk. $1.00. 

 TOP or BUTTON SETS. Per pt. 15 cts., qt 



30 cts., bv express, pk. $1.10. 

 EGYPTIAN or PERENNIAL. They may be 

 planted either in the spring or fall. They 

 come up early in spring without any protection 

 and furnish the earliest green onion, will also 

 supplv vou with green onions in the fall. Per 

 pt. 12 'cts., qt. 20 cts., pk. 60 cts. 



