March, iqii 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
181 
Onion. For some unknown reason, 
different seedsmen call the same onion by 
the same name. I have never found any 
explanation of this, except that a good 
many onions given different names in the 
catalogues are really the same thing. At 
least they grade into each other more than 
other vegetables. With me Prize-taker is 
the only sort now grown in quantity, as I 
have found it to outyield all other yel¬ 
lows, and to be a good keeper. It is a little 
milder in quality than the American yel¬ 
lows — Danvers and Southport Globes. 
When started under glass and transplanted 
out in April, it attains the size and the 
quality of the large Spanish onions of 
which it is a descendent. Weathersfield 
Red is the standard flat red, but not quite 
so good in quality or for keeping as South- 
port Red Globe. Of the white, I like best 
Mammoth Silver-skin. It is ready early 
and the finest in quality, to my taste, of 
all the onions, but not a good keeper. 
Aisla Craig, a new English sort now listed 
in several American catalogues, is the best 
to grow for extra fancy onions, especially 
for exhibiting; it should be started in Feb¬ 
ruary or March under glass. 
Parsley. Emerald is a large-growing, 
beautifully colored and mild-flavored sort. 
Parsnip. This vegetable is especially 
valuable because it may be had at perfec¬ 
tion when other vegetables are scarce. 
Hollow Crown (“Improved,” of course!) 
is the best. 
Peas. Peas are worse than corn. You 
will find enough exclamation points in the 
pea sections of catalogues to train the vines 
on. If you want to escape brain-fag and 
still have as good as the best, if not better, 
plant Gradus (or Prosperity) for early 
and second early; and Boston Unrivaled 
(an improved form of Telephone) for 
main crop, and Gradus for autumn. 
These two peas are good yielders, free 
growers and of really wonderfully fine 
quality. They need bushing, but I have 
never found a variety of decent quality 
that does not. 
Pepper. Ruby King is the standard, 
large, red, mild pepper, and as good as any. 
Chinese Giant is a newer sort, larger but 
later. The flesh is extremely thick and 
mild. On account of this quality, it will 
have a wider range of use than the older 
sorts. 
Pumpkins. The old Large Cheese, 
and the newer Quaker Pie, are as prolific, 
hardy and fine in quality and sweetness as 
any. 
Potato. Bonce is a good early garden 
sort, but without the best of culture is 
very small. Irish Cobbler is a good early 
white. Green Mountain is a universal 
favorite for main crop in the East — a sure 
yielder and heavy-crop potato of excellent 
quality. Uncle Sam is the best quality 
potato I ever grew. Baked, they taste 
almost as rich as chestnuts. 
Radish. I do not care to say much 
about radishes; I don't like them. They 
are, however, universal favorites. They 
come round, half-long, long and tapering; 
white, red, white-tipped, crimson, rose, 
yellow-brown and black; and from the 
will be Saved by 
Painting this Spring 
P AINT' which wears is made from pure white lead, 
mixed with linseed oil and colored at the time of 
painting. Even though linseed oil is high, the thing to 
remember is that paint materials are not nearly so expensive 
as the repairing of a neglected house. Linseed oil at even SI. 00 
or SI.25 a gallon makes the painting of the average house 
cost only S4 or S5 more than it used to cost. Not enough 
to warrant letting any house go to ruin from lack of paint. 
Furthermore, the flax crop is short again. Linseed oil won’t soon 
go lower. It may go higher. Paint this Spring and get the benefit of 
present prices. 
And use “Dutch Boy Painter” white lead and genuine linseed oil. 
Don’t be tempted, because standard materials are high, to employ some¬ 
thing inferior. This is a mistake because not true economy 
It may surprise you if you do a little figuring yourself 
Get from your local dealer prices on the following ingredients : 
100 lbs. “Dutch Boy Painter** white lead $. 
4 gallons pure linseed oil - 
1 gallon turpentine. 
1 pint turpentine drier - 
This makes 8 gallons Genuine old-fashioned paint 
Compare this with the cost of any other paint you would think of 
using. You’ll find the best is also the cheapest. 
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