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ONIONS— AMERICAN YELLOW KINDS 
TN THESE we have the greatest general utility onions 
for all purposes. Among them we find early, mid- 
season, and late varieties of flat, semi-round, and globe 
shape. Yellow onions are of uniformly stronger flavor 
than white ones, but they also keep better. 
Yellow Dutch or Strasburg is one of the oldest kinds in 
cultivation. Average time from seeds to ripe bulbs, 120 
days. Bulbs two and two and a half inches in diameter, 
decidedly flat, skin light yellow. Flesh mild, firm. 
Flat Yellow Danvers requires from 125 to 130 days to 
become two inches deep through by two and a half inches 
in diameter. It was the great general purpose variety 
until New England growers developed Yellow Globe 
Danvers (illustrated to right above) which is a much heavier 
yielder of handsome, coppery-yellow skinned bulbs, averag- 
ing two and a half to three inches in diameter within 135 
days. Ohio and Michigan Yellow Globe are related strains. 
Southport Yellow Globe is the largest and latest in this 
class, also the heaviest yielder. Average size three 
inches. Average time to mature, 140 days. The standard 
yellow in many sections. See bulb to left, above. 
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