SEE©-T1ME All© HABVEST. 
Hamlet, Ill., Oct. 2, 1884. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir;—At the 
beginning of this year I sent you an order 
for seeds and said I wanted you to send me 
two or three packets of onion seed, such as 
would produce the largest kind of bulbs. 
If successful I intend to compete at our 
County Fair for the premium on onions. 
You sent me three packets, one was the 
Giant Rocca, the other, White Tripoli, anc 
the third White Globe. On April 3rd, I 
sowed part of each packet in my cold 
frame. In due time the plants made their 
appearance, and it did seem to me that 
every seed had germinated, and all of them 
made tine plants. 
Having prepared the ground where I 
wanted the onions to grow, I marked off 
one long row with a garden line. On the 
22nd of May, there having been a heavy 
rain the night before, I transplanted the 
onions, putting them about five or six inch¬ 
es apart in the row: altogether there was a 
a little over one hundred plants of each 
kind. 1 hey all took hold and did Avell. 
All through the season I kept the ground 
mtilow and free from weeds. On the 15th 
of September the onions were ripe and the 
tops nearly all dead, so I gathered them. 
The Giant Rocca, true to name, produced, 
by far, the largest onions. Three of them 
were 4f inches in diameter; twenty of 
them 41 inches, and none less than three 
inches. The White Tripoli came next in 
breadth, but they were flat, and not so 
heavy as the Rocca. The White Globe is 
truly a globe, and a most beautiful onion; 
it would average • from 21 to 84 inches in 
diameter; in all but the color they were 
more like the Rocca in appearance. All 
were splendid onions and attracted great 
attention. 
I took about thirty of the Giant Rocca 
onions to our county fair and got the pre¬ 
mium; none of the other onions on exhi¬ 
bition were near as large. 
Now it may be said by some, that this ex¬ 
periment is a small affair. So it is. but 
think of it; if I had ixad one acre of such 
onions, what a pile I should have had. 
Tell me if any one has done better. 
Yours Truly, M. D. Dumbkll. 
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