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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



IV.— ONIONS. 



2G Exhibitors. 

 Classification of Varieties Exhibited. 



(a) Flat. Type: — Anglo- Spanish. Colour, yellow to brown. 

 Rousham Park Hero, Sutton's Improved Reading, Anglo- 

 Spanish, Brown Spanish, Globe Danvers, White Spanish, Anglo 

 White Spanish, Sandy Prize, Banbury, Market Favourite, 

 Veitch's Maincrop, Nuneham Park, Strasburg, Deptford, 

 Sulphur Yellow, Yellow Vertus, Danvers, Danvers Yellow, 

 Giant Zittau. 



(b) Globe or Round. Type : — Ailsa Craig. Colour, yellow to 



brown. 



Wroxton Improved, Ailsa Craig, Cranston's Excelsior, 

 New Paramatta, Bedfordshire Champion, Brown Globe, Cocoa 

 Nut, Trebon's White Globe, Golden Ball, Southport Yellow, 

 James's Keeping, Pinesfield, Improved Pinesfield. 



(c) Tripoli. Divided into two sub-sections : 1. Flat Tripoli. 



2. Round or Globe Tripoli. 



Sub-section 1. Flat. Type: — Flat Madeira or Tripoli. 



Giant Lemon Rocca, Giant Rocca, Large Giant Rocca, St. 

 Laurent, Giant Late White Flat Tripoli, Large Flat Madeira 

 or Tripoli, Large Blood-red Flat Italian, Red Italian, Yellow 

 Rocca. 



Sub-section 2. Round or Globe. Type : — Giant Madeira or 



Globe. 



Advancer, Madeira, Golden Globe, Red Italian, Large Round 

 Madeira or Globe. 



(d) White or Silver Skin. Divided into two sub-sections : 



1. Large. 2. Small or Pickling. 

 Sub-section 1. Large Silver Skin. 

 American or Southport White Globe, White Lisbon, Selected 

 White. 



Sub-section 2. Small Silver- skinned. Type : — The Queen. 

 Early White Naples, The Queen, Silver-skinned, Silver- 

 skinned Pear-shaped, Carter's Silver Ball. 



