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JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA 
Johnson & Stokes’ High-Grade Onion Seed 
Pedigree 
Stoeks 
No one can appreciate the value of reliable seeds better than those who have been once dis¬ 
appointed. Too much care cannot be exercised in selecting your supply of onion seed There is no 
vegetable in which the quality of the seed exerts a greater influence upon the crop. Uur aock u all 
grown from choice bulbs, selected carefully by baud, and is unsurpassed in th s coun¬ 
try. During our whole business career as seedsmen, it has always been our aim to make quality a 
first consideration, price afterwards, and in no one crop have we met with greater repaid foi our 
efforts than in onions, the demand for our seed having increased so rapidly that we ha\e been o digcd 
to largely increase our facilities for growing every year for several years past. 
PIIiLADELPHrA-GKOWN SEED, or that raised in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania, 
in unriueHtionably earlier than New England need, and still earlier compared with \\ estern seecl ; - Llus 
is an important feature, as the early market onions always bring the highest prices. The growth con¬ 
clusively proves our claim, the Philadelphia seed making bulbs of better quality for keeping 01 imme¬ 
diate use, either as sets or full-sized onions, long before seed from any other locality. Targe, lull-sized 
onions can be grown from our seed the first season in any section of the Lnited . ; tates, North or fcouth. 
To do this they should be sown as soon as possible in the spring, no matter if the weather is cold, 
so the soil works up well. This gives them agood start ahead of the weeds before hot weather. 
One ounce will sow one hundred feet of drill. To grow large onions from seed, five pounds to the 
acre ; to grow small sets, fifty to sixty pounds to the acre are required. 
Short crops of 1808. The crops of onion seed have been shorter than for many years. Our 
seed, however, is unusually plump and heavy, and subject to our greenhouse test in Mother Earth, 
shows perfect germinating power. Our prices are as low as the best American Onion Seed of 
new crop can lie sold for this season. Beware of old Onion seed and imported seed at low prices. 
Avomno R|ioclmoiiH of our Philadelphia Yellow Globe Danvers, the Best Yellow Onion. 
Philadelphia Yelloui Globe Danveus Onion— Pedigree Seed 
This improved variety is pronounced by onion growers, who now grow it in preference to all 
other onions, l lie very best strain in cultivation. It is the earliest yellow globe variety, large in 
size, uniformly perfect in shape and the largest cropper, producing from seed 1000 bushels to 
the acre with good cultivation. It is also the most reliable for bottoming, and one of the best keepers 
of all American Onions. In fact, it is everything that could he desired as a market or table onion. Prices 
of our Pedigree Tested Seed, crop of 1898, grown from selected hand-picked bulbs : Pkt., 10c.; 
oz., 20c.; I lb., 50c.; lb., $1.00, postpaid ; lb., $1.40; 5-lb. lots for $0.50 ; 10 lbs. and over, $1.25 per lb., 
by express or freight. 
(1 Special Offer on 4 Jlost Topular Philadelphia Onions 
FnP ^ flfl wo will Toliver free to any post-oflice in the United States 4 lbs. of either Philadelphia 
I Ul vJJvJ.UU Yellow Globe Danvers, Philadelphia Extra Early Red Flat, Pound Yellow Danvers, 
or Philadelphia Yellow Dutch or Strnsbnrg for $5.00. Customers have the privilege of 
ordering 4 lbs. of one variety, or they can order 1 lb. of each of the four varieties. All you have to do is 
to make up nil order for 4 lbs. of the above sorts and send $5.00. 
A HOOK wnicil ALL ONION GROWERS SHOULD HAVE 
• ii P 111 formation tor Culture, Storage and Marketing of both onions and onion sets, 
will bo found in our now up-to-date book, “Farm Gardening,” which costs but 50c., or can be 
had free for the asking with your order, if it amounts to $3.00. See page 13. 
