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Dependable Vegetable Seeds 
ONION—Cont. 
also insures earlier maturity and perfect ripening- down. 
The color of Southport Red Globe is a deep blood-red extra 
dark, while the surface is- smooth and glossy. The flesh is 
white, tinged with light purple, fine grained and unsur¬ 
passed in flavor. For a long time onions have been the big¬ 
gest money-making crop for the farmer. It is true that the 
onion market has its ups and downs, like all products, but 
at the average yields give highly satisfactory returns to 
the grower. One often reads glowing accounts of enormous 
onion profits, yields of 600 to 1000 bushels are not unknown. 
With intensive cultivation, experience and skill these yields 
are within the reach of all in a normal year. A sound, well 
ripened onion crop can be put away in the autumn and held 
for 4 to 6 months under suitable conditions with a shrink¬ 
age of not much more than a pound per bushel per month. 
Experienced growers are careful, however, to plant a se¬ 
lected strain which has been bred to produce long-keeping, 
perfectly ripened bulbs. Globe onions bring the best prices 
everywhere. 
Yellow Varieties 
Australian Brown. This remarkable onion is of medium size, 
wonderfully hard and solid and most attractive for market, 
both in form and appearance. They are extremely early in 
ripening and make no stiffnecks or scallions. Every seed 
seems to produce a good-sized onion, and the bulb begins to 
form very quickly when the plant is not over 3 inches high. 
Planted with the Red Wethersfield it will average nearly four 
weeks earlier, and ripen off more uniformly. It has the reputa¬ 
tion of keeping indefinitely, and we think from its firmness 
and hardiness that it will keep in good condition longer than 
any other onion known. The color of the skin is a clear 
amber-brown. 
Ebenezer. An excellent yellow onion of medium flat shape. 
Keeps all winter and is of mild pleasing flavor. At this time 
the seed is used mainly for raising sets, which when set out 
the following spring, produce large beautiful matured onions 
in July. The Ebenezer has wonderful cooking and keeping 
qualities. 
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