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Yellow Danvers. 
Yellow Danvers. A fine variety of medinm size, 
globular in form: skin yellowish brown; flesh 
white, comparatively mild and well flavored, and 
very productive; requires rich soil and good culti- 
vation to produce heavy crops. By careful selec- 
tion we have improved the original shape of this 
variety, so that many seedsmen catalogue it as 
Yellow Globe Danvers. 
Queen. Asilver 
skinned variety, of quick 
growth and remarkable 
keeping qualities. If sown 
in early spring it will 
produce onions one to two 
inches in diameter early in 
summer, and if sown in 
July, will with favorable 
weather be ready to pull 
late in autumn, and be 
sound and fit for use until 
the following summer. 
Particularly valuable for 
pickles,and if sown thickly 
they will mature perfect 
hard onions from one-half-to three-quarters of an 
inch in diameter. 
Large Bed Italian Tripoli. This has the same 
characteristics as the White Tripoli; except in color 
however. 
White Globe. 
White Globe. Yields abundantly, producing 
handsome and uniformly globe shaped bulbs. The 
flesh is firm, fine grained, and of mild flavor. Some- 
times called Southport White Globe. 
White Portugal or Sil- 
ver Skin. Mild flavor and 
handsome; much grown for 
pickling; poor beeper for 
market, but good for White 
Sets. 
Bulbs. 
Top Sets or Buttons. 
Produce on the top of the 
stalk instead of seed, a 
number of small bulbs or 
about the size of 
acorns, which, if planted, 
will produce a large onion 
maturing earlier than from 
seed. The large onion 
, produces the top onion, 
ind the little top onion produces the large onion. 
Bottom Sets. These are 
produced from seeds sown 
thickly in beds or drills. 
When the top dies down 
the small bulbs are gathered 
and spread out and kept in a 
cool dry place for future 
planting, and should be set, 
when the ground is in condition, in rows one foot 
apart and three or four inches distant. 
Parsnip. 
The value of the Parsnip for the table depends solely on 
the careful selection of the best roots and most thorough cul- 
tivation. As the seed is slow to germinate, too much care 
cannot be taken with planting. The soil must be warm and 
mellow. The earth should be firmly pressed over the seed. It 
„'^d“te covered to the depth of half an inch. Sow in drills 15 to 18 inches apart and thin out to 6 
inches in the row. 
Hollow Crown or Long Smooth. Boots ob- 
ong, ending somewhat abruptly, with a small tap 
root; grows mostly below the surface; has a very 
smooth clean skin, and is easily distinguished by 
the leaves arising from a cavity on the top or crown 
of the root. 
Student. A half long variety of delicious flavor. 
