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VAUGHAN'S BOOK FOR FLORISTS— CHICAGO AND NEW YORK. 



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VAUCHAN'S IDEAL WHITE GLOBE. 



ONION SEED 



VAUGHAN'S PEDIGREE. 



Our strains of Globe Onions are right! We see to it 

 that Seed Onions are selected with the greatest care, 

 and none are planted except they are of the true type. 

 Thin necks, globe shape and clear colors are what we 

 aim for. 



VAUGHAN'S IDEAL WHITE GLOBE. 



This is the handsomest of all Onions. It is of the true globe 

 form, pure white, hard, small necked, ripens very early and 

 evenly and is a good keeper. We supply the largest market gard- 

 eners in Chicago and the west. No market gardener or Onion 

 grower can afford to plant inferior stock, with only cheapness cf 

 price to recommend it, when seed like ours is to be had, the 

 results of a few ounces often paying twice the first cost of the 

 best seed. 



PRICE: Eastern Grown, oz.. 30o; % lb.. Sl.OO; lb., $4.00; 5 lbs., 

 $19.50; 10 lbs., $38.00. 



PKICE: Western Seed, oz., 20c; % lb., 70c; lb., $2.50; 5 lbs., 

 $13.25; 10 lbs., $24.00. 



SOUTHPORT YELLOW GLOBE. 



Southport Yellow Globe. -"^ m^''" "'oP' late, large round Onion. 



■ It is sure to satisfy the on.- who buys 

 a packet, or the one who sows .">0 pounds for carload shipments. A truly 

 grand Onion whose large, golden yellow spheres make a beautiful appear- 

 ance, sacked or barreled for the market. Finest of all yellow Onions for 

 keeping. Our Eastern strain of seed is from a grower of twenty-five years' 

 experience, who n.akes a specialty of this variety. There is no better. 



PRICE: Eastern Grown, oz., 20c; % lb., 50c; lb., $3.00; 5 lbs., $9.75; 

 10 lbs., $19.00. 



PRICE: Western .Seed, oz., 15c; % lb., 50c; lb., $1.75; 5 lbs., $8..j0; 

 10 lbs., $16.50. 



Southport Blood=Red Globe. 



seed cannot be found. The Onions a 

 firm — qualities which make them i 

 Our market gardener customers leguh 

 bushels from this seed. Our grower is an 

 this seed from large, fine colored, solid bulbs, 

 who rejects all thick necked ones. 



PRICE: .Eastern Grown, oz., 20c; % lb., 50c; lb., $l.i 

 10 lbs., $18.00. 



PRICE: Western Seed, oz., 15c; lb., 45c; lb., $1." 

 10 lbs., $16.50. 



Our Blood-red Giobe has a beau- 

 tiful red skin, and a better lot of 

 ? of immense size, very solid and 

 le sellers and excellent keepers, 

 ly grow crops yielding SOO to 1.000 

 s an expert, who carefully selects 

 ipened and cured, and 



lbs., $9.35; 



OHIO YELLOW GLOBE-SHOWING EVENNESS OF TYPE. 



Ohio Yellow Globe. 



Globe Danvers, being eai 

 uniform as to size and co 

 Ohio Grown Seed of this t 

 and yield of this alrf-a.l 

 superfine strain of Yellow 

 lb., $3.50. By express, 5 I 



Ohio Red Globe. ^ 



(See illustration.) The best of all yellow Onions. 

 Entirely distinct from the old type of Yellow 

 lier, smaller necked, of perfect globe shape, 

 or and a greater cropper. Vaughan's Special 

 lie is an extra fine selection as to color, shape 

 ii M rt. Regarded by seed growers the 

 I I I I .1 Oz., 20c; 2 oz., 35c; 14 lb., 70c; 

 lis., ;-i; 10 lbs., $34.00. 



I. iinihiiiii u.'.i iiiiiiin, similar in sliape 



, iilii,, ^^ II...;, i;|..l.. I ..1 k, I iiiiii >■ Seed grown 

 ■; >/, lb., (iOe; II).. S^.IO; .-> lbs., ^;10.35; 10 lbs.. 



i>;20.oo. 



Australian Brown Globe. 



cry early maturing 

 s are of good size, 

 Uent, one of the a 



variety. The 

 very solid and 

 ?ry best. Th.- 

 z., 15c; % lb.. 



heavy. The keeping quality 

 Onions are thin necked, and ripen evenly 

 45c; lb., $1.65. 



White Bermuda.'''''"'' Tenerlffe Grown. Much planted In the South, 

 especially In Texas. In the North the bulbs do not 

 Krow v< 1 > huge, hut are of very mild, sweet flavor, and are the earliest 

 ..r all Calbil White, but really of a light straw color. Oz., 20c; % lb.. 



70c; lb., $3.50. 



Red Bermuda Teneriffe Seed. 



Imllar to the above except in 

 ilor. Oz., 20c; V, lb., 70c; lb., $3.50. 



Crystal White Wax Teneriffe Seed. ^ pure white, large, early 



— — — ^— — ^— ^— ^— — maturing, fiat variety. 

 I'opular In the South like the White- Hiinuula. in the 

 excellent for the home garden on account of the mild, 

 Oz., 30c; 1/4 lb.. $1.10; lb.. $4.36. 



North, It 

 sweet Ila\ 



Prizetaker Onion, vaughan's selected stock. The handsomest, 

 — — ^— — — — largest yellow Globe Onion. A fair keeper, of 

 finest flavor, handsome shape and enormous size, many single Onions 

 weighing five pounds or more having been raised from seed the first year. 

 It is cf the same type as those Immense imported Onions which can be 

 seen in fruit stores, and always commands ,a very high price. The 

 Prizetaker always grows to a perfect globe shape, with a bright straw 

 colored skin; the necks are very small, and the Onion.s always ripen uj> 

 hard. American grown. Oz., 20c; V, lb., COc; lb., $3.00; 5 lbs., $9.75; 

 10 lbs., $19.00. 



Vaughan's Apple-5haped Red Globe, ^his is the most per- 



—————— feet market type of 



Red Globe Onion. Ideal for enclosing the most bulk in the most compact 

 shape. Its color is absolutely the darkest blood-red. Its size is equal 

 to any of the largest types of Red Globe. Fifteen years ago this Onion 

 wan first planted in the West, under the name of E'xtra Early Red Globe. 

 Since lliat time, grown on rich land, carefully selected for size, shape 

 and inliii. It has been improved a little each year, until we believe It 

 now 'he V. ry best of its class. Oz., 25c; lb., 80c; lb., $3.00. 



Mammoth Silver Kinsr. ™^ mammoth variety is one of the- 



2_ laigost in existence, averaging from 15 



to inches in circumference, often weighing from 2 U to 4 pounds each. 

 It matuns early, and is uniformly of large size and fine shape, being- 

 flattened but thick. The skin Is a beautiful silver-white, flesh snowy, 

 lender and of mild sweet flavor. Its striking size, handsome appearance 

 and mild flavor n ennimend it to the fancy market. Oz., 15c; 2 oz., 25c; 

 lb., 40.-: 11)., itll.r.O; 5 lbs., $7.25. 

 Differ. Ill iiKii lM I /ind localities prefer different Onions. Globe Onions 

 are g- iieinll\ il-i- must popular and yield better than the other sorts. 

 In certain jmitlnns v( the country certain colors are In the highest favor. 

 Vaughan's Ideal White Globe, Southport Blood Red, our special Ohio 

 Globes and Apple Shaped Red Globe are Ideals of their kind. Every 

 bag of seed Is tested as to vitality. 



