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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Best Keeping Onions. 



(a) Flat Section. (b) Globe Section. Yellowto brown. 



1. Deptford or Strasburg. 1. Brown Globe. 



2. Maincrop. 2. James's Keeping. 



3. Bousham Park. 3. Bedfordshire Champion. 



4. Giant Zittau. 4. Wroxton. 



5. Anglo- Spanish. 5. Advancer. 



(c) Teipoli Section. (d) Blood-bed Section. 

 1. Bed Italian. 1. Blood-red. 



2. Southport Globe. 



Seasons of Onions. 



1. Tripoli section — June to September. 



2. White-skinned — September to December. 



3. Flat, yellow to brown — December to March. 



4. Globe, yellow to brown — March to June. 



These sections arrive at maturity in the order given, and will 

 furnish a supply of sound Onions all the year round. 



Eemabks. 



The Onions formed one of the most remarkable features of 

 the Conference, and attracted much attention. Those exhibited 

 by Messrs. Vilmorin, from Paris, proved specially attractive, from 

 the great size of some of the examples of the Tripoli varieties 

 and their delicate colouring, to a degree never attained in this 

 country. The English Onions exhibited by Mr. Deverill and 

 others were equally remarkable, both for size and handsome 

 appearance. Kousham Park and Anglo White Spanish may be 

 specially noted as very extraordinary developments of the well- 

 known White Spanish Onion, which have been partly secured by 

 most careful selection for many years, and partly by excellent 

 cultivation. Banbury would seem to be a district of the country 

 with soil specially suited for the growth of Onions. 



Messrs. Deverill sent the following note on cultivation with 

 their exhibits : — 



" Soil : strong, heavy, dark loam, double dug in autumn, and 

 plenty of good, fat, rotten farmyard manure worked in, top- 

 dressed with soot in November, the beds being pointed over in 

 March, and made firm previous to planting. 



