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ONION. 
The Cultivation of Onion. The ground cannot well be too rich for this crop, nor the soil in too fine a condition. February and March are the chief seasons for 
sowing. The soil must be made firm before the operation is undertaken in either beds or drills. The seed should be sown thinly and covered lightly the drills 
12 inches apart, and the young onions thinned out to about 6 inches apart according to the variety. In very dry weather a good watering is very beneficial! Growers 
of Onions for exhibition generally transplant, and this is also a sure means of preventing the onion grub so troublesome in some districts. The Italian varieties are 
generally sown in Autumn and transplanted in Spring ; when under fair conditions enormous exhibition specimens are obtained. 
THE GIANT ONION, 
CARTERS’ RECORD. 
THE LARGEST ONION 
IN CULTIVATION. 
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Wallingford, 
Newbury, 
Trouville, 
Sedlescombe, 
Nassington, 
Swinderby, 
Whittlesea, 
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Taunton, 
Dunster, 
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Photographed f ram Nature and Copyrighted by J. C. <k Co. 
Carters’ Record Onion. 
sown eitheMn th^Autumn'or Sh 1 ! b f eCOme exeeedin &*y Popular when better known. It can be 
specimen, illustrated in the “ O^denm^ World/’ furneluhe leile ^Vlbs. 1 ™ S ° Wmg 18 reeommended - 11 wil1 be remembered that a 
“ ( ~f rt i ers ’ ‘ Record’ Onion was sown in February', and on the nth of August 
they turned the scale at lbs., and were 16 and 17 inches in circumference. I am 
pleased to say I took First Prize at our local Show.”— Mr. C. Barrett, CharltOn- 
all-Saints. 
4 c °, NTION Record.— This is one of the most telling of the newer kinds, owing 
to its fine shape and bright golden skin. It was one of the varieties which figured so 
prominently at the large vegetable show of the National Chrysanthemum Society last 
November, and it was also shown in the leading collections, making a strong dish in 
most cases. It is equally good grown in the ordinary way. I have excellent bulbs 
without special culture of any kind, and at the date I write, the second week in March, 
the bulbs are solid and good. I am not a lover of the large bulbs grown for show, 
but I value this for its good keeping and well doing in a poor soil.” — G. W. in The 
Garden. 
I have grown Carters’ ‘ Record ’ Onion for three years, and during that time 
have shown it five times and have taken five First Prizes.”— S. W. Fbnn Esq 
Nassington. ’ ’ 
CARTERS', 237, 138. & 97, HIQH HOLBORN, LONDON.-1898. 
In sealed packets, price 2s. per packet. 
I had a packet of Carters’ ‘ Record ’ Onion two years ago, and I sowed part 
of it then and the rest of it last Autumn, and I had some splendid Onions. I took 
hirst and Second Prizes last week at our Show.” — Mr. C Brackpool, Sedlescombe. 
In the Spring I had a packet of Carters’ ‘Record ’ Onion and made a bed of 
three rows of it beside three rows of another Onion. The ‘ Record ’ has passed every 
thing during all this hot dry weather— only rain twice in two months. It stands 
splendid ; nothing to equal it in scores of Onion beds on a ten-acre allotment field 
It is the admiration of all.”— Mr. R. Kerrage, Bury St Edmunds 
