Dependable Vegetable Seeds 
ONION 
Southport White Globe. White Globe Onions com" 
mand the highest market prices when they are true globe- 
shaped and free from stain. Our Southport White Globe 
Onion meets these requirements, having a thin skin of pure 
whiteness. The flesh is crisp, fine grained, very white 
and mild. As soon as ripe, the bulbs should be stored 
in a cool, dark shed or dry cellar. 
White Portugal or 
American Silver 
Skin. Bulbs medium 
size, ripening early and 
uniformly, with beautiful, 
clear, white skin; flat, 
good keeper, delicate and 
mild flavor. Used largely 
for pickles, also as a bunching onion. 
White Barletta. 
This variety is more dis¬ 
tinct on account of its 
earliness. It is earlier 
than the White Queen. 
It is of a beautiful waxy 
white color and grows 
1 M inches in diameter 
and % of an inch thick, 
with finely formed bulbs, 
slightly flattened at the 
top. Its earliness will 
highly recommend its use 
as a substitute for onion 
sets. An excellent bunch¬ 
ing and pickling sort. 
»So uth port 
Yellow 
Globe 
Onion 
White W elsh, a very hardy, perennial variety o f 
onion used only for bunching or early green onions. 
Much superior to the Egyptian onion, which grows a 
tough woody stem. This onion is entirely free from 
this objection. Sow seed thinly in rows 12 to 1G inches 
apart. Perfectly hardy and require no mulching. Seed 
may be sown in late summer or early fall months for 
early spring onions. 
Onion Culture 
Onions thrive well in any good soil, although very 
sandy soils are apt to dry out to too great an extent. 
Probably the very best soil for this purpose is old land 
that has been kept up 
to a high state of fertility 
and free from weeds, fall 
plowed and thoroughly 
pulverized in the spring. 
Sow the seed early in 
the spring, about inch 
deep in rows 12 to 15 
inches apart. It is tedious 
work thinning Onion 
plants, so to avoid un¬ 
necessary labor it pays to 
plant seed of highest 
germinating qualities; 
then the seed can be 
sown a trifle thicker than 
the Onions are to stand 
and little thinning will 
be required. 
One oz. of seed for 100 
feet of row; 5 to 6 lbs. 
seed per acre. 
Yellow Globe 
Danvers Onion 
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