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NORTHRUP, KING & CO.’S VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEED 

Southport Yellow Globe 115 days 
The most popular late variety of splendid 
keeping quality. More oval than the Yellow 
Globe Danvers, much larger, more solid and 
heavier. Skin deep orange-yellow, flesh fine 
grained and fairly strong. 
Sweet Spanish, Riverside Strain 
110 days 
A large, globe shaped light yellow onion, 
weighing 1 to 2 lbs., and unusually mild. 
Small top. A better keeper than the regular 
strain of Spanish onions. 
Sweet Spanish—Utah Strain 110 days 
_ A large, globular, yellow variety of Span- 
ish origin. Golden yellow skin and white, 
very sweet flesh. Excellent for shipping and 
fall storage. . 
Yellow Globe Danvers 110 days 
A splendid variety for home gardens and 
market. Nearly globe shaped, with pure 
yellow skin, white flesh and mild flavor. 
Bulbs about 2 in. in diameter. Somewhat 
earlier than Ohio and Southport Yellow 
Globes. Very productive and a fairly good 
keeper. 
ONION—White Varieties 
Chives or Snittlauch 90 days 
A hardly perennial of the onion family. 
Fine leaves are used in salads or for flavor- 
ing soups and stews. The plant is very dec- 
orative when allowed to bloom. Reaches full 
production in three years after planting 
from seed. 
Crystal White Wax 92 days 
A half globe sort, waxy, pure white and of 
extremely mild flavor. The earliest of the 
White Bermuda types. A very attractive and 
popular onion both for sets and for the 
table. Extensively planted in the South but 
does well, also, in the North. 
He-Shi-Ko or 
Japanese Long White Bunching 
A variety of onions used for green bunch- 
ing. They do not form bulbs. The plants are 
hardy and can be wintered over. Plants grow 
stiff and upright, the bleached portion is 
often 6 in. long and % to % in. in diameter. 
Mammoth Silver King 100 days 
A very large, silvery white onion with de- 
licious extra mild flavor. Attractive bulbs, 
flattened but thick. Frequently grow 5 to 7% 
in. in diameter. A good keeper. 
N. K. & Co.’s Minnesota White Globe 
110 days. A special selection of Southport 
White Globe. 
Southport White Globe 110 days 
The standard, producing good size bulbs, 
pure white in color. On account of its at- 
tractive appearance, this onion brings top 
prices on the markets. Flesh of delicious 
flavor. A fine keeper. Bulbs globe shaped. 
White Barletta 90 days 
An extra early pickling onion. Bulbs 
small, pure white, about 1 in. in diameter, 
flattened on top. A good bunching onion and 
a splendid white pickling variety. 
White Lisbon 95 days 
A large round, fine white onion of excel- 
lent quality. An exceptionally early variety, 
generally used for bunching. 
White Portugal or American Silver Skin 
100 days 
A white onion used widely for sets, pick- 
ling onions, mature bulbs and_ bunching 
onions. Medium size, flat, deep, pure white 
bulbs with white fine grained flesh. 
White Sweet Spanish 110 days 
A selection from the Sweet Spanish for 
white color. This strain always throws a few 
off colors. It has the same general char- 
acteristics as Sweet Spanish and is popular 
in the West and Rocky Mountain states. 
Very large, mild and a fair keeper. 
White Welsh 
A very hardy, perennial variety which is 
used only for bunching or for early green 
onions. It forms no bulbs. May be sown in 
late Summer or Fall and the shoots will, in 
the Spring, attain marketable size before 
green onions from sets are offered. 

White Globe Onion 
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