Dependable Vegetable Seeds 
ONION (Continued) 
all produce, but at the aver¬ 
age price of $2.00 to $3.GO 
per cwt. in the autumn, and 
the ordinary yield, onions 
give highly satisfactory re¬ 
turns to the grower. One 
often reads glowing accounts 
of enormous onion profits, 
yields of 6t,0 to 1000 bushel 
are not unknown. With in¬ 
tensive cultivation, experi¬ 
ence and skill these yields 
are within the reach of all 
in a normal year. A sound, 
well ripened onion crop can 
be put away in the autumn 
and held for 6 to H months 
under suitable conditions 
with a shrinkage of not much Large Red Wethersfield Onion 
more than a pound per bush¬ 
el per month. Experienced 
growers are careful however to plant a selected strain 
which has been bred to produce long-keeping, perfectly 
ripened bulbs. Globe onions bring the best prices every¬ 
where. 
Yellow Varieties 
Ebenezer. An excellent yellow onion of medium flat 
shape. Keeps all winter and is of mild pleasing flavor. At 
this time the seed is used mainly for raising sets, which,when 
set out the following snring. produce large beautiful matured 
onions in July. The Ebenezer has wonderful cooking and 
keeping qualities. 
Long Keeping Australian Brown. This re¬ 
markable onion is of medium size, wonderfully hard and 
solid and most attractive for market, both in form and 
appearance. They are extremely early in ripening and 
make no stiffnecks or scallions. Every seed seems to pro¬ 
duce a good-sized onion, and the bulb begins to form 
very Quickly when the plant is not over 3 inches high. 
Planted with the Red Wethersfield it will average nearly 
four weeks earlier, and ripen olf more uniformly. It has 
the reputation of keeping indefinitely, and we think from 
its firmness and hardinesst hat it will keep in good con¬ 
dition longer than any other onion known. The color of 
the skin is a clear amber-brown. 
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