H, G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
ONIONS You need onions the year round. Why not grow them in sufficient quantity to have them without buying Northern 
onions from the storekeeper most of the year. Onions grown direct from seed are good keepers for months. 
I^IJIXUDE' For home use onion seed or sets should 
be planted in any good garden soil just as 
early as the ground can be worked to advantage in the 
spring. Ground should be thoroughly broken; well fertilized 
or manured and then worked down very fine, all trash, clods 
or grass roots being removed. The use of sets is absolutely 
unnecessary except as a matter of earliness. Where well 
shaped, long keeping, marketable onions are desired plant the 
seed instead of sets, as the seed makes much better onions in 
every respect. Sow one ounce of seed to 200 feet of row ; four 
or five pounds per acre. Sets vary considerably in size, but 
the average will run about one pound of sets to 100 feet of 
row. Onions from seed will mature; in 100 to 140 days, ac- 
cording to variety ; from sets in from 80 to 100 davs. 
Cover seed in clay or heavy soils about % inch; in "sandy 
soils 1 inch. If weather and soil is dry firm the soil after 
planting; heavy or clay soils should not be firmed when wet. 
As soon as seed is well up begin a light surface cultivation 
and keep this up every week, or ten days. Never let grass 
and weeds get a start, for young onion plants choked with 
weeds or grass die down in the “set” size and will have to be 
held over until the following fall.. Cultivation (always shal- 
low) should be kept up until bulbs are well formed and ma- 
tured as indicated by the dying down or dropping over of the 
tops. When matured dig or plow up and store in a dry place, 
leaving tops on until you are ready to use or market them. 
PriTCitalrAV Our Prizetaker onion is 
rnzeidKer of the very best Amerl- ' 
Oninn growth, far superior to all im- 
Will VII ^ivui f ported seed and ’way ahead of the ^ 
Prizetaker onion ofiered by other American houses. It has , 
been most successfully grown in all parts of the Central 
South from both spring and fall sowings. Our illustration, 
reproduced from a photograph, shows the shape of this va- 
riety perfectly. It is very large, frequently measuring 12 to ' 
18 inches in circumference, and fine bulbs have been raised 
weighing from 4i/^ to 5 pounds each. During the last three 
years we have seen some splendid market crops of Prizetak- 
ers raised even under very unfavorable conditions, not only 
in Georgia but in practically every one of the Southern 
States, showing Prizetaker to be well adapted to our entire 
section. Our Mr. Hastings has been in all of the noted onion- 
growing sections of this country — Connecticut, Pennsylva- 
nia, Ohio and California — and he has never seen any Prize- 
taker onion superior to the samples which were shipped us 
from these crops. Prizetaker is a light straw-colored onion 
with a pure white flesh, very fine grain with rather mild 
flavor, and will keep for any reasonable length of time. 
Packet, 10 cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; % 
pound, 90 cents; pound, $3.50; postpaid. 
Crystal Wax Bermuda 
The most attractive 
onion in the world. 
Hastings’ American Grown Prizetaker Onion Grown Direct From Seed 
(No. 289) Our own introduction and one that we have 
White or Yellow Bermuda 
The standard Bermu- 
da Onion ; identical 
/Ma 988 \ with Crystal Wax except its pale yellow color. 
Chiefly with this variety the Bermuda Onion Indus- 
try has been developed and it has grown to great proportions since 
Hastings’ introduced the Bermuda as a market onion some 27 years 
ago. Packet, 10 cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; % pound, 
90 cents; pound, $3.00; portpaid. 
been exceedingly proud of. It is an absolutely 
pure white Bermuda Onion with a most beautiful waxy ap- 
pearance, that sells on sight in the retail markets. In New York 
and other large markets our Crystal Wax sells 25 to 50 cents per 
crate above the Bermuda White or Yellow. In Atlanta markets 
it has largely displaced all other onions during spring and early 
summer. Except in color it is identical with the Yellow Bermuda; 
has all its desirable qualities combined with much more handsome 
appearance. Packet, 10 cents; % ounce, 20 cents; ounce, 35 cents; 
^ pound, $1.25; pound, $4.00; postpaid. 
Hastings’ Bermuda Onions — Earliest, Mildest and Most Attractive Onion in the World 
