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FERRY-MORSE SEED CO. 



ONION 



In our selecting operations particular attention is paid to ripening down~and keeping quality. 



Our bulbs are subjected to a long storage period to eliminate any occasional poor keeping indi- 

 viduals before planting the mother bulbs in the spring for stock seed. 



The trials of onion, at our Experimental Gardens near Detroit, are always planted about May 

 1st. The earlier varieties such as Extra Early Red Flat, are always fully mature in 125 days or less 

 and the late varieties about 2 weeks later, that .i^ is the latter part of September. 



Our stocks of onions are superior in "JjSm every respect. 



Onion, Sweet Spanish (Riverside Strain) 



Code Word 



Ailsa Craig oncra 



Very popular in Great Britain, but not widely used in America. 

 Bulbs very large, light yellow, lightly tinged with bronze, oblong- 

 globe, hard and keep well. 



Australian Brown onaus 



Standard market variety of notably lon^ keeping quality; splen- 

 did for sets. Bulbs flat, out rather deep in shape; skin thick and 

 chestnut brown; flavor strong and flesh cooks dark. 



Ebenezer onzer 



Produces excellent sets of extraordinary keeping quaUty which 

 planted in the spring produce early mature onions for market. 

 Bulbs medium size; deep-flat in shape; pure deep yellow; very 

 firm and hard. The true type of this and of Japanese is the same. 



Ohio Yellow Globe onhio 



Standard very widely used variety of splendid keeping quaUty. 

 Bulbs oblong globe shape at upper half and a trifle flattened at 

 the base; skin pure deep yellow; flesh firm and hard. Michigan 

 Yellow Globe is the same. 



Prizetaker (Same as Mammoth Yellow Spanish or Valencia) onpri 



The most widely grown of the Sweet Spanish class. Enormously 

 productive, widely grown for shipping. Bulbs large, globular; 

 skin thin, glossy and of a lighter shade of yellow than Ohio and 

 Southport Yellow Globes; flesh coarse but mild and sweet. 



1 lb. 



10 lbs. 



or more 



or more 



per lb. 



per lb. 



$1.25 



$1.10 



1.10 



1.15 



1.30 



1.15 



1.00 



1.05 



1.20 



1.05 



