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Lakeview Seed Farm, Rochester, N. Y. 
Kolb's Gem. — New. This melon has suddenly attained 
great popularity in the South, by reason of its great size, great 
yield and fine shipping quality. Its flavor is the best, and re 
mains in fine condition for two or three months. Per packet, 5 
cents ; oz., 10 cents ; i Jb., 80 cents ; lb., $1.00. 
Scaly Bark. — A melon of recent introduction. One of the 
most solid melons I have ever grown ; one of the best for ship- 
ping ; will stand a great deal of rough handling without break- 
ing open ; large size, rind thin and tough ; flesh light crimson 
and fine flavor. Per packet, five cents ; oz., 10 cents ; i lb., 35- 
cents; lb., |1.25. 
Citron. — For preserves. Used for sweetmeats and pre- 
serves. Per packet, 5 cents; oz., 10 cents ; i lb., 35 cents ; lb., 
$1.25. 
MUSTARD. 
A pungent salad, used the same as cress. As it is quite 
hardy it can be sown in the early spring. Sow thickly in rows,, 
and cut when two inches high. 
Mustard White. — The best for salad and culinary pur- 
poses. Per packet, 5 cents ; oz., 10 cents ; i lb., 15 cents ; lb., 50' 
cents. 
ONIOIS^. 
Onion seed is my leading specialty, and I believe that my seed 
is second to none in the country. If there is such a thing as Pedi- 
gree Seed I have got it. My stock of Yellow Globe Dan vers has. 
been improved by careful selection for nearly twenty years, using 
only the most perfectly formed bulbs for seed stock. In addition 
to raising the best possible seed from the best stock, I do what is 
seldom done by seed growers, and that is, after my seed has been, 
cleaned by the mill in the usual way, it is all 
watee cleaned. 
This is an expensive way to clean seed, as all the light, half-filled 
seed that goes through the mill is washed out and thrown away. 
But, if expensive, it is thorough. Every seed that sinks in water 
must be a heavy seed, and sure to grow. A large onion grower 
said to me, " When I sow water cleaned seed, I Jcnow it is going 
to grow, but when it has not been washed I am not sure of it." 
Read the testimonials on page 35 and see what my customers, 
say of it. 
Onions can be successfully grown on any soil that is not too 
sandy or stony. In this part of the State they are largely grown 
on muck land. But such land must be well drained. I have 
found unleached wood ashes and phosphate the best fertilizers on 
muck. Apply one half when the crop is sown, and the rest just 
before the onions begin to bottom. 
The seed should be sown in the spring as soon as the ground 
is dry enough to work. There is little danger of the Feed rotting 
by sowing too early. Sow four or five pounds to the acre, in 
drills fourteen inches apart, and be careful not to let the weeds 
get a start of the onions. A few days neglect in weeding the first 
time may be fatal to the crop. Four weedings are generally neces- 
sary. They are cured or dried upon the ground, and, if the 
weather is pleasant, topped in the field. They must not be stored 
in piles, as they heat rapidly. I have a house, built partly under 
ground, for storing ihem, with shelves two feet apart upon which 
the onions are placed eight to ten inches deep. I have wintered 
them very successfully by freezing them, but the objection is, you 
cannot handle them until spring, and oftentimes lose the best 
market in January and February. 
|^°My crop of onion seed, o ving to the drought, was a par- 
tial failure, and I shall not be able to fill all my orders with seed 
of my own growing. I shall have other good seed to sell, but I do 
not sell it as my own seed. 
The seed we got of you last spring gave the best of satisfac- 
tion. The season was very unfavorable, but our garden was very 
good— not a seed lost. G. H. ATKINS, Ovid, N. Y. 
I sent to you last year and was perfectly sati'=^fied with your 
seed. I will say they were the best seed I ever sowed, and will 
strongly recommend them. 
B. H. GRIFFITHS, Stoddard, N. H. 
