JAMES J. II. GBEGOBY & SON'S BE TAIL CATALOGUE. 
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EXTRA ROUND YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS. 
There are several strains 
of the Danvers Onion; be¬ 
ginning with an onion but 
slightly thicker than the old 
flatfish Strasburg, they may 
be graded all the way to a 
strain that is about as round 
as a boy’s ball. As some of 
our customers have ex¬ 
pressed a preference for the 
extreme type, we have this 
season raised a limited quan¬ 
tity, some of the seed from 
the handsomest specimens in 
our crop of seven hundred 
and sixty-two bushels to the 
acre. This is undoubtedly 
the heaviest cropper of all 
the varieties of Danvers 
Ouion, some of our neigh¬ 
bors having raised eleven 
hundred bushels to the acre. 
It lias the one drawback that it requires the highest manur¬ 
ing to perfect it (from twelve to twenty cords of strong ma¬ 
nure), otherwise it will produce a larger per cent of scallions 
than the common strains. Heavy manuring makes all strains 
of Danvers Onions grow thicker and rounder. Price, per lb., 
postpaid, $3.00; per 3 lb., 98c.; per oz., 30c.; per pkg., 10c. 
Karly Roand Yellow Danvers, 
The Danvers Onion excels in earliness, 
and commands, usually, a readier sale and 
higher price than the red sorts. By years 
of careful selection, it has been improved, 
and is one of the handsomest of onions. It 
does best 011 a gravelly loam, making harder 
and brighter colored bulbs than on heavy, 
dark, or mucky soil, besides keeping better. 
If to be raised on muck, the land should 
first receive two hundred loads per acre of 
gritty soil. If the land is in onions for the 
first time, plant half a pound of seed extra. Price, per lb., 
postpaid, $2.50; per oz., 25 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
A. .T. Trask. Waldoboro, Me., writes : “From two ounces of vour Early 
Round Yellow Danvers Onion I grew 35 bushels of line bulbs.”" 
EGYPTIAN, OR PERENNIAL TREE ONIONS. 
LARGE FLAT WHITE ITALIAN. 
We have always hesitated to recommend to our customers 
the large varieties of foreign onions over which some of our 
fellow-seedsmen use such big adjectives, simply because in our 
numerous tests of them, made every season, We find that most 
of them are very coarse and tend largely to run to scallions, 
while others that bottom pretty well evidently need to be 
planted as sets to attain to any great size. This season we 
find in a special strain of Large Flat White Italian a decided 
acquisition of real practical value to the onion grower. There is 
no coarse, “ six-pound ” nonsense about it; but our customers 
will find it to be an extra large, extra early white onion, that 
bottoms down well and is nearly entirely free from scallions. 
It is as early as the Danvers, and we do not see why it may 
not replace the Portugal and all the early white sorts as an 
early onion for bunching. Like all the other large onions, it is 
not as good a keeper as the average varieties, such as Danvers 
and Large Red. Its sphere is as a fall onion. For the pur¬ 
pose it is decidedly an acquisition. Every garden should have a 
bed. Price, per lb., postpaid, $2.00; per £ lb., 58 cts.; per 
oz., 20 cts.; per pkg., 5 cts. 
SOUTHPORT “UU-PTIOTH! GLOBE. 
As white and handsome as a newly made snowball; sells at 
a higher price than other sorts. Too late to grow safely 
north of Connecticut. To get a very white onion, pull just as 
they begin to go down, and dry in an airy and shady place. 
Price, per lb., postpaid, $3.50; per oz., 35c.; per pkg., 10c. 
When once set 
out, without the 
slightest winter 
protection, it will 
come up year 
after year, as 
soon as frost s 
break ground, 
a n d g r o w s o 
rapidly that it is 
ready for market 
or home use two 
or three week be¬ 
fore any of them. 
The bulbs are not 
round, but irreg¬ 
ular, just like 
those we get 
called u rare¬ 
ripes ” by setting 
out old onions in 
the spring, and are larger the second year. For family use it 
is unsurpassed for sweetness and tenderness. The young sets 
grow on top of the stalks, like tree onions. These should be 
planted in the fall. They will be sent out in August or Sep¬ 
tember, as soon as ripened. Price, per qt., postpaid, 42 cts.; 
per express, 30 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts.; per peck, per express, 
$1.25; per bush.,,per express, $1.00. 
SOUTHPORT LATE RED GLOBE. 
Very popular in the markets of New York ; it measures bet¬ 
ter and sells at a higher price than Red Wethersfield. It is 
late, and we do not recommend it for farmers who live north 
of Southern Connecticut. Let such try our new variety, the 
Early Southport Red; for description see page 26. Price, 
per lb., postpaid, $2.25; per oz., 20 cts.; per pkg., 5 cts. 
WHITE DUTCH EAELY ROUND HARD PICKLING. 
Perchance many of our customers may 
have noticed at their country stores jars of 
small round pickled onions bearing the im¬ 
print of Crosse & Blackwell, 
London. 
These were the White 
Dutch — the beau-ideal of a 
pickling onion, small, round, 
hard and white, surpassing 
(‘very other variety for this 
purpose. It is the only one used 
in the immense pickle factories 
of England and France. 
This variety needs to be 
planted thickly, at the rate of 
30 lbs. per acre, to produce 
the small pickling size. Price 
per lb., postpaid, $2.50; per 
oz., 25 cts., per pkg., 5 cts. 
