Dependable Vegetable Seeds 
ONION—Cont. 
Southport 
Yellow 
Globe 
Onion 
White Barletta. This 
variety is more dis¬ 
tinct on account of its 
earliness. It is early 
and of a beautiful 
waxy white color and 
grows 1% inches in 
diameter and % of an 
inch thick, with finely 
formed bulbs, slight¬ 
ly flattened at the 
top. Its earliness will 
highly recommend its 
use as a substitute 
for onion sets. An 
excellent bunching 
and pickling sort. 
White Bunching. An 
extra early, round, 
variety maturing 
large, snowy - white 
onions of fine quality 
long before other 
sorts are ready. Es¬ 
pecially fine for early 
bunching or using 
green. 
White Portugal or American Silver Skin. Bulbs medium 
size, ripening early and uniformly, with beautiful, clear, 
white skin; flat, good keeper, delicate and mild flavor. Used 
largely for pickles, also as a bunching onion and for pro¬ 
ducing white sets. 
White Welsh. A very hardy, perennial variety of onion 
used only for bunching or early green onions. Much superior 
to the Egyptian onion, which grows a tough woody stem. 
This onion is entirely free from this objection. Sow seed 
thinly in rows 12 to 16 inches apart. Perfectly hardy and 
require no mulching. Seed may be sown in late summer or 
early fall months for early spring onions. 
Onion Culture 
Onions thrive well in any good soil, although very sandy 
soils are apt to dry out to too great an extent. Probably the 
very best soil for this purpose is old land that has been kept 
up to a high state of fertility and free from weeds, fall 
plowed and thoroughly pulverized in the spring. 
Sow the seed early in the spring, about y 2 inch deep in rows 
15 inches apart. It is tedious work thinning Onion plants, so 
to avoid unnecessary labor it pays to plant seed of highest 
germinating qualities; then the seed can be sown a trifle 
thicker than the Onions are to stand and little thinning will 
be required. 
One ounce of seed for 100 feet of row; 5 to 6 pounds seed 
per acre. 
ONION SETS 
The Importance of 
Using Sets Wilieli Are 
Northern Grown. The 
planting of Onion 
Sets is increasing 
rapidly year after 
year. They are used in 
order to obtain onions 
earlier than they can 
be had from seed. It 
follows therefore, 
that Northern Grown 
Onion Sets will pro¬ 
duce onions earlier 
than Southern grown. 
Our stock is of small 
size, very hard and 
sound, and is cleaned 
so thoroughly as to be 
free from trash and 
rubbish. 
We offer White Bot¬ 
tom, Red Bottom and 
Yellow Bottom sets. 
Yellow Globe 
Danvers Onion 
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