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garden If you have any seed would you kindly let me have some and 

 I will try and get my tenants here to try them. 



Mr. J. R. Reece, Pedro. — My first lot of onions failed owing to 

 too much rain, the second, owing to drought. 



Mr. John Davidson, Bellevue — I have been very successful with the 

 onion seeds you sent me ; there are a few smallish ones, but they mea- 

 sured in circumference as a rule 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 11 J in. The crop 

 is (for quantity of seeds) a large one and taste and flavour absolutely 

 delicious. 



Mr. R. A. AYalcott, Mandeville — I gave Mrs. Swaby about a quarter 

 of a pint of the onion seed you imported for me. She sowed them at 

 Newark in Manchester in October last. The rains washed out a very 

 considerable portion of the plants, but for all that she reaped a crop of 

 186 lbs. of fine onions in February this year, and she readily sold them 

 in Manchester at 6d. per lb. The onions were not very large, but of 

 fair size and excellent flavour. The rest of the seeds went to Mr. M. 

 H. M. Farquharson, of Middle Quarters, when he bought my pen 

 " Hopeton" in Westmoreland from me. I may add, however, that a 

 small patch of onions planted at that place April of last year also suc- 

 ceeded very well indeed. This shows that they are not particular either 

 as to season or locality. 



