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JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
SUPERIOR ONION SEED. 
Sow in drills 14 inches apart, using 4 lbs. ©1 seed to the acre. 
My stock of Onion Seed is raised with peculiar i 
care, none but the very best and earliest onions 
being selected for seed stock, and from these I select 
carefully, by hand, my seed onions. Not cm ounce of 
seed is sent out from my establishment that is not per¬ 
fectly reliable. Exercising such care, I claim for it a 
quality superior to most of that in the market, which is 
raised either from very small, refuse onions, from large 
and coarse onions, or, again, from such onions as the 
seed grower chances to have on hand—either of which 
qualities tends to produce poor onions. All the onion 
seed of my own growing is raised in locations perfectly 
isolated, and the yellow sorts will be found to be almost 
entirely free of any mixture with red. Below I add a 
few extracts from the many letters received from my 
customers. 
Early Round Danvers Yellow Onion. The 
Danvers Onion excels in earliness, and yields more than the 
Flat Red or Yellow sorts. Over 1000 bushels have been raised 
on an acre. It commands a readier sale than the Red sorts, 
and brings a higher price in the market. 
Early Flat Red. One of the very earliest, hardy and 
reliable. A capital sort for the extreme north where other 
sorts are too late to bottom and ripen well. 
Early Round Red, or Danvers Red. This 
ripens two or three weeks earlier than Red Wethersfield. 
Scullions are almost unknown with this onion when grown from 
most carefully selected seed stock, it being as reliable for bot¬ 
toming well as Winnigstadt Cabbage is to make a head. 
Southport Late Red Globe. This variety of 
Late Red is very popular in the markets of Yew York, where 
it sells at a higher price per barrel than the common Red 
Wethersfield. Being much rounder it measures better, and 
for this reason also is more profitable for market gardeners 
to grow. It is quite*late, and I therefore do not recommend it 
for farmers who live north of southern Connecticut. 
White Globe. As white and handsome as a newly 
made snow-ball ; sells half as high again as other sorts. Too 
late to grow north of southern Connecticut. Should be dried 
in an airy and shady place. 
The Early Cracker Onion is the earliest of ail my 
Yellow soils and an excellent kind to raise where the seasons 
are short. 
PEDIGREE ONION SEED. 
An observing intelligent farmer claimed 
that earliness, reliability for bottoming, smallness of 
neck can be as thoroughly inbred in an onion, as ca¬ 
pacity to transmit her good qualities can be inbred in a 
cow or in any class of animals. What is possible to 
attain to in this matter my customers find in my onion 
-seed, as shown in the extracts from letters given below. 
Those who have never raised onions from seed raised 
from stock so carefully selected will be equally surprised 
and pleased at the result. 
An axiom that every onion grower soon 
4 4 cheap onion seed is always dear.”*J ^gf 
ONION SEED BY THE POUND. 
learns, 
Southport Late Red Globe... 
Early Round Yellow Danvers, my own growing, 
from hand picked onions. 
Early Round Yellow Danvers, in 10 lb. lots. 
in 25 lb. lots.. 
Mail. Mail. 
Ext), 
I lb. 
lb. 
lb. 
$2 00 $6 00 $5 92 
2 50 
8 00 
7 92 
1 50 
5 00 
4 92 
1 25 
4 00 
3 92 
1 25 
4 00 
3 92 
1 50 
5 00 
4 92 
4 75 
4 G7 
4 50 
4 42 
1 50 
5 00 
4 92 
1 50 
5 00 
4 92 
4 75 
4 G? 
4 50 
4 42 
1 50 
5 00 
4 92 
Early Red Globe, (own growing). 
Early Globe Red in 10 lb. lots. 
“ “ “ in 25 lb. lots. 
Early Elat Red. 
Onions can be raised in the South the same year 
from the black seed. I would particularly desire to 
call the attention of my patrons in the South to the fact 
that seed grown as far north as my farms are located will 
as a ride produce in the Southern States full sized onions 
the first season , without resorting to the expensive and 
slow method of sowing seeds for setts, which must be 
planted another season to get the fully developed onion, 
as is the ordinary practice at the South. Please ob¬ 
serve that several of the recommendations given below 
are from Southern States; and the onions were matured 
f ull sized the first year from my black seed. My custom¬ 
ers in Texas have written me that they have grown 
onions the first year from black seed of my raising, in 
one instance, three inches in diameter, and in another 
weighing a pound each. 
I “The Early Globe Red Onion seed which I purchased of you last 
| year gave the best satisfaction. I believe that every seed grew. Thev 
1 took the first prize at the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Horti- 
i cultural Society.” Adam Wickerham. 
1 Monongahela. Washington Co., Pa., Feb. 25, 1874. 
j “ I have raised here from your Danvers Onion seed bulbs averaging 
I three inches in diameter, the first year from seed. Ilad as good success 
| as I ever had in the best onion growing section of Vermont ” 
; Rural Bower, Greensville Co., Va., Feb. 10,1874. Frank M. Gage. 
j “ I have bought Danvers Yellow Onion seed from you the last three 
; years, and it lias proved true to name every time. I could have bought 
onion seed last year for from one to two dollars per pound, but I was 
afraid of it. My experience is, good seed true to name is cheap at 
almost any price. I have tried many others’ seeds, but I must say none 
that proved so true as yours.” Henry Sivers 
Oswego, N. Y., April 1, 1874. 
| “ I must say that all the seeds purchased of you did extra well 
especially the Danvers Onion, which grew larger from the seed than any 
onion around here grew from the sets.” James McGowan * 
Phillipsburg, Warren Co., N. J ., Feb. 15, 1874. 
“ Having bought my Onion seeds of you for the past three /ears and 
each year having tried other seed in the same field on a fair IVial every 
time l am convinced that yours is the best I‘ can get, so 1 send you my 
order for twelve pounds.” David Gunning J 
Marshall , IDs., Jan. 31, 1874. 
“ From your Danvers Onion seed planted in February of last year I 
grew specimens weighing over one pound each.” J. W Flemming ’ 
San Saba, Texas, June 29,1873. . x dimming. 
“ It is due you to say that I have purchased my seeds of you for sev¬ 
eral years and that they have been what you recommend every time 1 
can buy onion seed at one dollar and a half per pound, hut prefer your- 
at four dollars, — — J 
Ganges , Mich., March 3, 1873. 
Ed. Hawke 
ihe seeds we had from you last vear did well, and the onion which 
was of the Danvers Yellow variety did extra. We had onions to take up 
for the market in August, and four of the largest weighed two pounds 
We find that your seed is far better than we can raise ourselves ” 
Raymond, Few Hampshire. Mrs. Sarah H. Corson. 
“ Th e ^eds you sent to me last spring gave satisfaction. Mv onions 
were admired ; they grew so even and large ; every seed came up and 
made a large onion. v j \r rwwrw 
Um, Iowa. March n, W7X • * ’ COVFW. 
