/ onos , ONIONS, For Home and Market 
Here's That Early Golden Yellow Colorado Onion 
Mountain Danvers—Franklin's Improved Strain 
T103. Improved Mountain 
Danvers is extra early, 
often being ready for 
market when prices are 
highest. Also one of the 
best main crop kinds, 
keeping and shipping es¬ 
pecially well. 
Improved Mountain Dan¬ 
vers insures a crop in 
many localities where 
season is short and ordi¬ 
nary kinds would not 
make good. Yet it is also 
meeting with much favor 
in lower altitudes. In 
some localities it has 
been grown to weigh a 
pound, record yields of 
600 sacks to the acre 
being made under ideal 
conditions over on the 
Western Slope in Colo- 
rad®, where this onion 
originated. 
The rich, golden yellow 
onions, developed by A. L. 
Franklin, are ideal globe 
shape, nearly as ' round 
and sound as baseballs. 
Necks thin. 
Price for true Improved 
Mt. Danvers seed: Pkt. 
10 c; oz. 20c. 
Por Larger Lots of Mt. 
Danvers See Page 16. 
Mountain Sweet Spanish 
V107. One of the finest, largest and best 
keeping of the Sweet Spanish types, Moun¬ 
tain Sweet Spanish is the result of contin¬ 
ued mountain growing of the Riverside 
Sweet Spanish. An excellent variety for 
shipping or storing for winter use. The 
onions are very large globes and yield an 
enormous crop per acre. The flavor is sweet 
and mild. Pkt. 15c; oz. 25c. 
Por Larger Lots of Mountain Sweet Spanisli 
See Page 16 
, Riverside Sweet Spanish 
V108. An American-grown strain of the fa¬ 
mous Spanish variety, called Valencia; also 
Riverside. The bronze-yellow globe onions 
are larger and better than Prize-Taker. 
Heavy yielder. Good keeper. Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c. 
Por Larger Lots Riverside Sweet Spanisli 
See Page 16 
V106. YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS. Well 
described by its name, yellow globe. Pkt. 
5c; oz. 15c. 
V99. RED WETHERSPIELD. Large flat red. 
Southport Red Globe is better. Pkt. 5c; oz. 
10 c. 
V96. SELECT PRIZE-TAKER. Discontinued; 
plant Sweet Spanish; much better. 
V102. WHITE SILVERSKIN. (Also called 
White Portugal and White Danvers.) Pro¬ 
duces good medium sized bulbs. Is early, 
mild and long keeper. Pkt. 5c; oz. 20c. 
V97. IDEAL WHITE GLOBE. Pure white, 
long keeping onion. Pkt. 5c; oz. 20c. 
VI 04. SOUTHPORT RED GLOBE. Leading 
money maker for growers in some sections. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c. 
V101. EARLY BARLETTA. An early white 
variety used for pickling. Plant very thick. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 20c. 
For Larger Lots See Page 16 
Strong Talk About Mild Onions 
One thing I never do is to promise anyone 
that a certain onion is very mild. Some kinds 
naturally milder than others, but any likely 
to be hot. Depends a lot on how grown. If 
growth is rapid, with plenty of water, the 
onions will be milder than if plants stunted, 
growth slower, and water insufficient. Some 
customers report that they find Mountain 
Sweet Spanish milder than other kinds. But 
why a mild onion anyhow? If want something 
real mild, eat an egg plant, or mushroom. 
In growing onions for market, use discretion. 
Don’t grow too many of the Crystal White 
Wax produced from onion plants. They are 
10 
fine, but the onions must be marketed soon 
after matured. Cannot be kept for rise in 
price like the standard sorts grown from seed, 
such as Southport Globes, Silverskin, Danvers, 
Mt. Danvers, and Mt. Sweet Spanish. 
A COMMON ONION ERROR 
According to Webster: 
Scullion is a menial kitchen servant who 
washes kettles, scrubs floors, and the like. 
Scallion is a shallot, leek, or other onion that 
does not form a round bulb, hence, also an 
onion that has failed to make a slender, well- 
ripened neck, a thick-neck. 
