W. F. ALLEN’S PLANT AND SEED CATALOGUE. 
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The Prize Taker Onion. 
PRIZE TAKER.— : This' is 
one of the best of the huge 
foreign varieties. When started 
early under glass and trans¬ 
planted in the open ground, 
they bottom, fairly well ; are 
nearly free from stiff necks and 
when offered for sale always 
attract marked attention. They 
are not, however, good keepers. 
The variety is without doubt the 
largest grown. Under special 
culture single specimens weigh¬ 
ing five pounds. I am offering 
this season, only the best Amer- 
grown seed. Pkt. 5c. ; oz. 15c.; 
quarter-pound 50c.; pound $1.60* 
PHILADELPHIA SILVER 
SKIN.— The bulbs are slightly 
smaller, flatter, and earlier than 
White Portugal. Sown thickly 
about sixty pounds per acre, it 
produces famous Philadelphia 
white sets. This is an espec¬ 
ially selected strain of Silver 
Skin which is largely planted 
for the purpose of raising sets 
for seed. Pkt. 5c. ; oz. 15c.; 
quarter-pound 50c. ; pound $1.60. 
WHITE PORTUGAL.-This 
is 'a standard white variety for 
general culture. The bulbs 
grow to good size, ripen early 
and quite evenly ; it is a good 
keeper, flesh is mild and sweet, 
with thin skin; a clear silvery 
white of handsome appearance 
if the bulbs are gathered as 
soon as ripe and carefully dried 
under shelter away from any 
sunlight. When seed are sown 
at the rate of twenty-five 
pounds per acre, it makes bulbs 
of suitable size and most desir¬ 
able for pickling. Pkt. 5c.; oz. 
15c.; quarter-pound 50c.; pound 
$1.60. 
YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS.-This is4n im¬ 
mense cropper, and vvill yield more marketable 
onions to the acre than most other kinds. Our 
strain of Danvers is equal to any, and may be re¬ 
lied on as a first class cropper. Its points of super¬ 
iority are earliness in ripening, perfect globe shape, 
and smallness of the neck ; the finest shaped, best 
colored, and largest cropper of any of the yellow 
onions. Pkt. 5c. ; oz. ,15c. ; quarter-pound 50c. ; 
pound $1.60. 
RERRER. 
RUBY KING.—The plants grow about two 
feet high and produce fine crops of handsome large, 
scarlet fruit which ripens somewhat earlier than 
any other large variety ; flesh thick, sweet and 
mild ; especially fine for salad, or stuffed for man¬ 
goes. I place this variety at the head? of the list 
because it is generally considered at the head to 
the list because it is generally considered the best 
of all the varieties. Pkt. 5c. ; oz. 20c.; quarter- 
pound 60c.; pound $2.00. 
RUBY KING' 
PKPPKtt, 
BULL NOSE.—A standard sweet flavored scarlet sort. Plants two feet 
high, prolific, and quite early in ripening. The sweet scarlet fruits are three 
inches in length and two inches in diameter, ripening earlier than Ruby King. 
Our stock of this •pepperjis very fine.lt Pkt.j5c.;. oz. 20c. ;i quarter-pound 
(c.; pound $1.75. 
CHINESE GIANT.—Flesh thick'and mild,'requires a long growing's eason, 
so Plants should be set early; the peppers grow much larger than Ruby King, 
and of a bright scarlet color when ripe. The plant is strong; of vi gorous 
growth, being about two feet high when fully grown, and very prolific. The 
extreme size of the peppers is a great surprise to all:who grow them. Pkt. 10c.: 
oz. 35c.; quarter-pound $1.00. 
