NEWYOiUL PURPLE EGG PLANT. 
make more clean money from one-fourtli 
•acre to one acre of onions, than from all 
the rest of their farms. They are easily 
grown upon any common farm land, if 
properly prepared and tended. To grow 
them successfully requires practice, and we 
would advise those about to begin not to at¬ 
tempt too much at first. One rod of ground, 
properly handled will yield more profit than 
a dozen which are neglected. Manure 
■heavily, pulverize thoroughly, sow early, 
and cultivate frequently and success is cer¬ 
tain, provided of couise that the seed is 
.good. A failure here will produce a fail- 
•ure all around. Good seeds can be bought 
low if seen red early. Of varieties the Yel¬ 
low Globe Danvers is probably the most 
popular, though the Red Wethersfield is 
preferred by some. The Yellow Dutch some¬ 
what resembles the Danvers. grows harder 
rand flatter and is a . ,v o^ri oni m. fhe South 
“YELLOW G'.OBE ONION. 
port Red Globe, Yellow Globe, and White 
Globe, are fine Connecticut onions, resem- 
bl ng r ich other in every way except in 
< olor. 
The New Queen is planted for early gar¬ 
den use, in place of setts as it is very early 
The Early Red Globe is the earliest of any 
which is planted for market use. The 
White Tripoli and Giant Rocca are Italian 
varieties which do well in the South, pro¬ 
ducing very large onions. For sowing 
thickly to produce setts for another years 
use. The Yellow Dutch and White Por¬ 
tugal are mostly used. For growing full- 
sized market onions, five pounds of fresh 
seed is the usual allowance per acre, but, for 
producing setts they should be sown very 
thickly, thirty pounds per acre is considered 
none too m my. 
THE POTATO CROP 
is the most important hoed crop upon man) 
farms. In no other vegetable is it necessary 
to change the variety so often as with Po¬ 
tatoes. Deterioration is so rapid that the 
very best kinds of only five years ago are 
already superseded by newer ones. Many 
planters strive to cling to their old favorites 
but in vain, their day once being past they 
have to give room to those more recently 
produced from the seed-ball. We have giv¬ 
en the testing of new varieties of potatoes a 
great deal of attention during the past few 
years and in discarding hundreds have held 
on to a very select list, undoubtedly the 
very best now in cultivation. Wall’s 
Orange , of which we present an engraving 
in this issue is the subject of a special no¬ 
tice elsewhere. For earliest use Early Beau¬ 
ty of Hebron, Tilde of America, Cark’s No. 
1, Early Telephone, and Brownell’s Best are 
about alike in earlinews. They are all of ex- 
EARLY BEAUTY OF HEBRON. 
