GREAT NORTHERN SEED CO., ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS—BEST QUALITY SEEDS 
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The Best ONION SEED—Continued 
The Standard White Onion for Market and 
Family Use 
Ebenezer or 
Japanese 
Peerless Southport Red Globe 
The celebrated Blood-Red Globe Onion. This variety for many years has 
proved to be one of the most profitable for the market and shipping trade, com¬ 
manding uniformly good prices in carload lots. Flesh is firm, finely grained, 
very rich, yet unusually mild for a red Onion, and is sure to please the most 
fastidious. The crop is ready to harvest in early Fall and keeps well until 
the late Spring months. No one that we have ever known has been disap¬ 
pointed with the results obtained by planting this great Onion. 
Our own growth, choicest Northern-grown, high-grade pedigreed stock seed. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c; 2 oz. 45c; Vi lb. 80c; V4 lb. $1.50; lb. $2.75; 2 lb. $5.25, 
postpaid. 
Peerless Southport Yellow Globe 
Excels in size, excels in yield, excels in keeping qualities, excels in mildness 
and flavor. Matures in early Fall. It is sure to satisfy the one who buys a 
packet or the one who sows 50 pounds or more of seed for carload shipments. 
A truly grand Onion, whose large, golden-yellow spheres make a beautiful 
appearance, sacked, crated or barreled for the market. 
Our own growth, choicest Northern-Grown, high-grade, pedigreed stock seed. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c; 2 oz. 45c; i/ 4 lb. 85c; V 2 lb. $1.60; lb. $3.00; 2 lb. $5 50, 
postpaid. 
Peerless Southport White Globe 
Handsomest of all Onions. It is of true globe form, pure white, hard, small 
necked, ripening regularly and evenly; a splendid keeper. The flesh is firm and 
fine grained and mild to taste. 
Our own growth, choicest Northern-Grown, high-grade, pedigreed stock seed. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 27c; 2 oz. 50c; Vi lb. 95c; Vi lb. $1.75; lb. $3.25; 2 lbs. $6.00, 
postpaid. 
Mammoth Silver King 
White Onions—Its Mildness of Flavor 
and Tenderness Are Unsurpassed 
The largest white Onion. Grows to 
a remarkable size—average diameter is 
from 5 to 7 % inches. Single bulbs 
often attain weights of over 4 pounds 
each. There is no other while Onion 
which attains such mammoth size. The 
shape is flattened, but thick through. 
The skin is of a beautiful silvery white. 
The flesh is of a snowy white, and is 
of a particularly mild and pleasant 
flavor. Being a sure cropper, produc¬ 
ing immense Onions and enormous 
crops which bring the highest prices, 
this variety has been a great money¬ 
maker for the grower; but its fine, mild 
flavor makes it also most desirable for 
the private gardener. Send to our 
Rockford Seed Farms for tested pedi¬ 
greed seed. Pkt. 10c; oz. 23c; 2 oz. 
40c; 1/4 lb. 70c; V 2 lb. $1.25; lb. $2.25; 
2 lbs. $4.25, postpaid. 
Early White WelsK 
Medium size bulbs of flat shape, which 
ripen evenly and quite early—about 10 
days earlier than Southport White Globe. 
They are of handsome appearance; have a 
clear white skin as beautiful as glistening 
silver. The flesh is of mild, delicious 
flavor. For keeping, this is the best of all 
white varieties. 
A gardener who does not care to plant 
more than one variety should use this one, 
and everyone should make a liberal sowing 
of it for continuous use. These Onions 
make fine bunching of Green Onions and 
are also grown for the market as large 
White Onions. They are also much used 
for pickling and for Onion Sets. Buy your 
seeds from first hands. Our own growth, 
choicest Northern-grown, high-grade pedi¬ 
greed stock seed. Pkt. 7c; oz. 23c; 2 oz. 
40c; 1/4 lb. 75c; V 2 lb. $1.35; lb. $2.50; 2 lb. 
$4.75, postpaid. 
Mammoth Silver King Onion 
FREE GIFTS 
With your seed and plant orders. 
See page 1 
Ebenezer or Japanese 
Mild Flavor; Excellent Keeper; Heavy Yielder 
Those who want a nice mild Onion for their 
own use would do well to try the Ebenezer, as it 
is the mildest flavored Onion we have ever tasted. 
The flesh is white, firm and of a very delicate 
flavor. The Onions are large, somewhat flattened, 
yellow-skinned and have very small tops and 
mature early. They will keep sound and hard all 
Winter. Pkt. 5c; oz. 20c; 2 oz. 35c; Vi lb. 65c; 
V 2 lb. $1.15; lb. $2.00; 2 lb. $3.75, postpaid. 
Round or Yellow Danvers 
Very handsome in appearance. Flattened, but 
thick through, of fine size; in fact, it is ideal 
in every respect for market and family purposes. 
Skin is thin, of a rich straw color. Flesh is pearly 
white, fine grained, firm, mild and of excellent 
quality. Ripens early, keeps well and sells rap¬ 
idly. Our own growth, choicest Northern-grown, 
high-grade pedigreed stock seed. Pkt. 5c; oz. 
20c; 2 oz. 35c; V 4 lb. 60c; V 2 lb. $1.10; lb. $2.00; 
2 lb. $3.50, postpaid. 
Extra Early White Queen or 
White Pearl 
A silver-skinned variety of remarkably quick 
growth. Small bulbs, flat, of mild flavor. Par¬ 
ticularly valuable for pickles. Pkt. 7c; oz. 20c; 
2 oz. 35c; Vi lb. 60c; Vh lb. $1.10; lb. $2.00; 2 
lb. $3.50. 
Early White Welsh 
For Green Onions. A most desirable green bunch Onion. It does not form 
bulbs, only enlargements at the base of each shoot, which are quite attractive 
and, being extremely early sell well before Onions grown from sets are brought 
to the market. We recommend this variety very much and know market 
gardeners will find it an exceedingly profitable crop. A hardy perennial and 
can remain in the ground for years. Pkt. 5c; oz. 20c; 2 oz. 35c; x /4 lb. 60c; 
i/ 2 lb. $1.10; lb. $2.00; 2 lbs. $3.50. 
Peerless Southport Globe 
QUANTITY 
PRICES 
Pages 2 and 3 
New White Portugal or 
White Silverskin 
See pages 2 and 3 for lower prices on large quantities 
