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JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. 
LA CROSSE, WIS 
1939 
AVhite Portugral’ or Silverskin 
WHITE PORTUGAL OR SILVERSKIN 
ONION SETS 
Please Note: If your 
total seed order 
amounts to one pound 
or more, the following 
low prices apply on 
Salzer’s Onion Sets! If 
your total order is less 
tli:in one pound, please 
add 10c for postage to 
t Ii e following pound 
prices and 21c to the three pound prices. Onion set prices 
subject to change without notice. 
Postpaid Prices If Your Total NOT PREPAID 
Seed Order Is 1 Lh. or More: 32 Ihs. 
Lb. 
3 lbs. 
8 lbs. 
16 lb.s. 
(Bu.) 
Yellow Bottom 
Sets.. 
.$0.12 
$0.29 
L$0.55 
$0.95 
$1.75 
Red Bottom Sets.... 
. .12 
.29 
.55 
.95 
1.75 
White Bottom 
Sets.. 
. .14 
.32 
.60 
1.05 
1.95 
Mixed Bottom 
Sets.. 
. .11 
.28 
.50 
.90 
1.65 
EBENEZER OR “JAPANESE” 
Of great value for producing very early onions. The 
onions are round, yellow skinned, and pure white fleshed. 
Mild, tender, and a prodigious yielder. If your total seed 
order is less than 1 lb., please add 10c for postage to 1 lb. 
price and 21c to 3 lb. price. Lh., 15c; 3 Ihs., 35c, postpaid 
if your total seed order is 1 lb, or more. Not prepaid: 
8 lbs., 65c: 16 lbs., $1.20; bu. (32 lbs.), $2.25. 
YELLOW MULTIPLIERS 
A very popular and widely grown white onion and a 
splendid keeper. The large, mature onion is of mild and 
pleasant flavor and is of somewhat flattened shape. A great 
seller on the market and very popular for 
family use. Pure white, flesh fine 
grained, firm and hard. An ideal slicer. II 
It is also a .splendid sort for growing 
white onion sets, pickle.s* and for early 
bunching green onions. May be sown as \ 
late as June to produce small pickling 
onions by fall. Matures in 120 days. 
757—Pkg., 5c; oz., 15c; 2 oz., 2Sc; % lb., 
d7c; Vz lb., S5c; lb., $1.50; 2 lbs., $2.75; 5 
lbs., .$6.25, postpaid. 
WHITE QUEEN PICKLING 
Our finest pickling onion, also known 
as White Pearl. It is the best of all the 
white picklers, growing about 1 inch by 
V 2 inch thick, with a fine neck, and is 
very early. Onions remain hard and solid. 
Very productive. 787—Pkg., 10c; 
oz., 18c; 2 oz., 32c; % 11>*» 54c; 14 
lb., $1.00; lb., $1.85; 2 lbs., $3.50; 
5 lbs., $8.45, postpaid. 
White Q-ueen 
LONG WHITE BUNCHING 
A hardy, perennial variety used 
only for bunching or for early 
green onions; it forms no bulbs. 
The shoots attain marketable size 
very quickly and sell at top 
prices. Seed may be sown in late 
summer for early spring onions. 
790—Pkg., 10c; oz., 17c; 14 •!>., 
52c; 14 lb., OHc; lb., $1.75, postpaid. 
OKRA 
Long White Bunching 
Also called Gumbo. Splendid for soups and stews, and 
easily grown. 
Perkins Mammoth —^About 3 ft. high, rich dark green 
pods often 8 inches long, of fine quality, produced in great 
quantities. 50 days. 731—Pkg., 7c; oz., 11c; 14 lb.. 24c; 
lb., 70e, postpaid. 
"White Velvet —Round, smooth white pods of large size, 
tender and of superior flavor. 214 ft. Bears profusely. 
732—l*kg.. 5c; oz., lie; 14 Ib., 22c; lb., 66c, postpaid. 
Or Shallots. Silver white flesh, yellow skin; very pro¬ 
ductive, often with 20 bulbs in a single cluster. Mild, 
sweet and fine for bunching green. If your total seed or¬ 
der is less than 1 lb., please add 10c for postage to 1 lb. 
price and 21c to 8 lb. price. Lb., 17c; 3 lbs., 40c, postpaid 
if your total seed order is 1 lb. or more. Not prepaid: 8 
lbs., 85c; 16 lbs., $1.55; bu. (32 lbs.), $2.95. 
PERENNIAL TOP SETS 
Also known as Egyptian Top Sets. Stay in the ground 
all year long, and produce onions as soon as the snow 
leaves. Hardy and bear for years. If your total seed 
order is less than 1 lb.. 
please add 10c for 
postage to 1 lb. price, 
and 21c to 3 lb. price. ' 
Lb., 15c; 3 lbs., 37c, 
postpaid if your total 
.seed order is 1 lb. or , 
more. Not prepaid: 8" 
lbs., 7.5c; 16 lbs., $1.35; 
bu. (28 lb.s.), $1.95. 
ONION 
PLANTS 
Valencia Onion Plants 
Set out Salzer’Sj 
Onion Plants just as’, 
soon as you can get"'' 
them into the ground 
—the same as with 
Salzer’s cabbage 
plants. Please state on 
your order about what 
date we shall send 
your union plants. Or¬ 
ders must be for 100 or 
multiples of 100 plants. 
Available from Jan¬ 
uary 15 to June 15.' 
Our plants do not have 
“pink root.’’ 
VALENCIA OR SWEET SPANISH, 
CRYSTAL WAX OR WHITE BERMUDA; 
AND YELLOW BERMUDA 
Prices of Onion Plants: 106 for .39c; 200 for 70c; 300 for' 
95c: 400 for $1.15; 500 for $1.35; 8(M> for $1.95; 1,000 for. 
$2.15; 3.000 for .$4.95; 6.000 for $7.25, postpaid. Not pre-'Si 
paid: 1,000, .$1.25; 6.000 (1 crate), for ^1.75 : 30,000 ( 5|| 
crates), for $14.50. Shipping weight, per 1,000 plants, 6B 
pounds. Shipping weight, about 40 lbs. per crate. Beft 
sure to stale what date we shall ship pLints. 
We were very much pleased with your Sweet Spanish 
Mr. Melvin S. Commish 
Onion Plants last year. 
, Amery, Wisconsin. 
They were very nice.- 
