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peculiar feature about raising Onions here, and tiiat is. they can only 
be raised from Southern, or so-called Creole seed. No seed from 
North, West, or any part of Europe, will produce a merchantable 
Onion in the South. When the crop of Creole seed is a failure, and 
they are scarce, they will bring a good price, and have been sold as 
high as ten dollars a pound, when at the same time Northern seed 
could be had for one-fourth of that price. Northern raised seed can 
be sown to be used green, but as we have Shallots here which grow 
during the whole autumn and winter, and multiply very rapidly, the 
sowing of seed for green onions is not profitable. ' Seed should be 
sown from the middle of September to the end of October, if sown 
sooner too many will throw up seed stalks. They are generally sown 
broad-cast, and when the size of a goose quill transplanted into rows 
one to two feet apart, and about live inches in the rows. Onions are 
different, in regard to rotation, from other vegetables; they do best if 
raised on the same ground for a succession of years. The price of 
Onions has been good, and it is expected to be good next spring, 
owing to the dry weather North and West, and it is hoped that a good 
profit will be made by those who are in the cultivation of this vege¬ 
table. 
Yellow Dutch or Strasshui’K* A brownish yellow Onion, fiat 
and of good size in the North, but does not bulb here. 
Large Red Wethersfield. This is the favorite kind in the 
East, but does not answer here, except to be used green. 
White, or Silver Skiss. A mild variety of tlie same shape as 
the Strassburg. This variety is more apt to make a small onion here 
than the two foregoing kinds are. 
Louisiana or Creole Onion. 
