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JAMES J. II. QBE GOBY & SON'S BE TAIL CATALOGUE. 
WA'i'KRIVIKLOXS- Continued. 
KOLB’S GEM. 
This is largely 
grown in the South 
for shipping to 
Northern markets, 
and has proved to 
be one of the best 
shipping melons 
known, as it has a 
very tough skin and 
will stand transpor¬ 
tation better than 
most kinds. The 
flesh is of a bright- 
red color, and it 
ranks high for 
flavor. It is round 
in shape, striped 
with light green 
fty pounds. Price, 
per lb., postpaid, 75 cts.; per oz., 10 cts.; per pkg., 5 cts. 
RED-SEEDED VAUCLUSE. 
The bright red seed of this melon, in contrast with its 
brilliant red flesh, gives it a beautiful appearance on the table. 
It grows to a fair market size, is early, and a good shipper. 
Color of skin dark green, threaded with a still darker green. 
Price, per lb., postpaid, 95 cts.; per oz., 10 cts.; per pkg., 5 cts. 
DIXIE. 
A new Southern variety, which is said to surpass the famous 
Kolb’s Gem as a shipper, and to be unexcelled in quality and 
productiveness; highly recommended by various growers for 
hardiness, quality, and productiveness. One realized $200 
per acre; another got $30 to $40 per hundred; a third declares 
it the best hi his thirty years of experience; a fourth counted 
a dozen ripe to a hill, and a fifth took first premium at the 
Illinois fair. Price, per lb., postpaid, 95 cts.; per oz., 10 cts.; 
per pkg., 5 cts. 
(See prices on page 45.) Ms a ru i e re( % on i ons are 0 f superior table quality. 
KSP"* For full directions for raising Onions, see our Treatise on Onion Growing—-sent to any address for 30 cents, 
PEDIGREE ONION SEED. 
We still continue to raise our pedigree strain of onion seed 
of the various kinds, by which we mean seed grown from 
most carefully selected, hand-picked onions. We send the 
men over the beds after the onions are pulled, raked in win¬ 
nows, and dry enough to house, on their hands and knees to 
select out the driest and therefore the earliest, the thickest, 
hardest, and best-shaped onions, all to be of good market size. 
We thus get the very cream of the crop, and from these raise 
our seed. We have a right to claim that seed raised from 
such onions is decidedly superior to the great mass of seed to 
be found in the market, which we know is raised either from 
very small, refuse onions, or large, coarse ones, or from such 
onions.as the seed grower chances to have on hand — either 
of which tends to produce an inferior stock of seed. No ex¬ 
perienced market gardener would plant such seed, even were 
it given to him. ^We would invite anv onion planter to 
visit our seed farms, at Howes’ Station, Mass., and examine 
our seed onions, and ice shall be much mistaken if we cannot 
show him by the thousand bushels the handsomest lot of seed onions 
to be found on any seed farm in the United States: 
,. An observing, intelligent farmer claimed that earliness, re¬ 
liability for bottoming, smallness of neck, can be as thoroughly 
inbred in an onion as capacity to transmit her good qualities 
canbe inbred in a cow or in any class of animals. What is 
WHITE BARTLETTA. 
The earliest of all varieties of the 
onion family. The distinguishing 
quality of this variety is its great 
earliness, as also its beautiful white 
nacreous color. Earlier than the 
White Queen, it is about II inches in 
diameter, and | inch thick, with a flat 
top and a prominent base. Its earli¬ 
ness cannot fail to make it a favorite 
in every garden. Bulbs raised from 
the seed sown will mature just about 
as early as those raised from sets. 
Price, per lb., postpaid, $2.50; per 
oz., 25 cts.; per pkg., 5 cts. 
possioie to attain to in this matter our customers find in our 
onion seed, as shown in the extracts from letters given below. 
P^An axiom that every onion grower soon learns : “ Cheap 
onion seed is always dear." 
Mr. Ettori Tassinari’s crop (see copy from photograph on outside cover). 
Mr. Tassinan writes us : “ I have the pleasure of telling you that speci- 
mens of Danvers Globe raised from your seed took the first prize at the 
annual fair of the State Horticultural Society. From the piece planted to 
your seed, 11 acres, I raised 1434 bushels, both onions and land 
having been accurately measured. 1 have been well pleased with all the 
\ aneties of seed I had from you, drawing prizes and gratuities from a 
number of varieties exhibited.” 
J?;, Ia ” wr . ites : “ 1 stated in my order last year that I 
.ntended to beat Del. Co. on onions raised from your seed, and f fully suc¬ 
ceeded. I raised at the rate of eight hundred bushels peracie, and but 
for excessive dry weather would have reached one thousand.” 
Jacob Reist, Conestoga, Ont., writes: “I have never raised a variety of 
^ni hat i 8U i ted - mea8 T e i l as your Early Bed Globe Danvers, as fafita 
eailiness, bottoming, and flavor.” 
nfvm;rwTwi NeWmarket ’ H., writes: “I sowed one half-pound 
i Da 7 erS onion , seed 011 one sixteenth of an acre of measured 
S dS1Xty '° ne aild one fourtH bushels of as fine onions as I 
ociw« 
A Garrett, St. Paris, O., writes: “I raised from one third pound 
nudedGmv VnokPd m h p te G ‘° be 0I l!9 n 8eed one hundred bushels. When 
pulled they looked like so many white turnips.” 
Arthur B. Doolittle, Wallingford, Conn., writes: “The onion seed re 
ceived from you last year was the best I have ever had. It c^me up the 
evenest ol any I have ever planted. T ra.sed two hundred And thirty 
one quarter of an acre. They were the finest onions thatl 
hat e e\ er seen, and not over a peck of small ones on the entire piece.” 
EARLY ME® €s?L@lE 1AI?E1§, 
This variety, though it has had the name 
‘‘Globe” given it, is a thick, flat, rather 
than round onion. There are several 
kinds of Early Red Globe Onion seed before, 
the public; but in our trial grounds we have 
found no one of them equal in bottoming, 
earliness, and cropping qualities to our 
Early Red Globe Danvers. This onion is 
not as well known as it ought to be; it 
ripens two weeks earlier than Red Wethersfield. Scallions are 
=JUJ.t St -I I11 K“ 0VV “ w, r\ S rown from carefully selected seed 
stock, it being as reliable for bottoming well as Winnigstadt 
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