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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
REPOKT ON THE KEEPING QUALITIES OF ONIONS, 1899. 
In Vol. XXII. page 228, a descriptive report of sixty-nine stocks of 
Onions — in each case Autumn and Spring sown — was given ; to enhance 
the vahie of the report, the Fruit and Vegetable Committee wished the 
keeping qualities of each variety to be tested. The trial proved that all 
the Tripoli section were useless by the end of the year (1898). And also 
that in every case the transplanted Autumn-sown bulbs kept longer and 
were more shapely than the non-transplanted ones ; and, further, that in 
every variety the transplanted Autumn- sown bulbs kept equally as long 
as the Spring-sown ones ; and that the non-transplanted Autumn-sown 
bulbs were the first to sprout or rot. The dates given are those when 
the bulbs commenced to grow^ or decay. 
Nome of Variety. 
Limit cf Keeping. 
A 1 
. May 19, 1899. 
Ailsa Craig 
. March 15, 1899. 
Alderton .... 
. February 27, 1899. 
Anglo-bpanish . 
. May 11, 1899. 
JJanbury Cross . 
. March 18, 1899. 
T\ ITT r^'T ^"11" 
Bartella Silver bkni . 
. December 13, 1898. 
Bassano Eed Tripoh . 
. November 2, 1898. 
JBediordshn^e Champion 
. June 6, 1899. 
Blood Bed .... 
. June 6, 1899. 
Cocoa-nut .... 
. February 27, 1899. 
Cranston's Excelsior . 
. February 27, 1899. 
Crimson Globe . 
June (, io\))j. 
Danvers Yellow . 
. May 20, 1899. 
Eclipse .... 
. May 17, 1899. 
Forde Defiance . 
. January 30, 1899. 
Forde Long Keeping . 
. June 5, 1899. 
Giant Lemon Bocca . 
. December 5, 1898. 
Giant Bocca Ih'own . 
. December 1, 1898. 
Giant Bocca Tripoli . 
. December 1, 1898. 
Giant Zittau 
. May 25, 1899. 
Globe Tripoh . 
. December 27, 1898. 
Golden Ball 
. May 25, 1899. 
Golden Globe 
. May 19, 1899. 
Golden Noble 
. February 14, 1899. 
Improved White Globe 
. May 19, 1899. 
Italian Tripoli . 
. December 14, 1898. 
Magnum Bonum 
. June 5, 1899. 
Monarch .... 
. January 81, 1899. 
New Globe Winter 
. May 19, 1899. 
New Golden Globe 
. February 27, 1899. 
Nort Pale Bed . 
. May 28,''l899. 
Nuneham Park . 
. May 11, 1899. 
