ONIONS 
A packet of seed will sow about 25 feel of row; an ounce 200 feet. It requires 5 to 6 lbs. of seed per acre. 
Onion Culture. Onions are raised from the seed and from sets or 
plants. Seed sown in early spring produces ripe onions in the fall, while 
sets or plants set out at the same time make green “bunching” onions 
in a few weeks and dry ripe onions in July or August. 
To raise good onions from seed the ground must be rich and in fine 
condition. Sow the seed as early as possible in rows 14 inches apart. Weed 
as soon as the onions appear and keep well cultivated. 
Large Spanish onions can be easily grown from plants. See next page. 


To Raise Early Green Onions. The best way is to plant sets or plants 
early in the spring but they can be raised from seed sown the previous 
fall. Japanese Bunching is the best variety for fall sowing. 
Our Onion Seed is all grown from carefully selected onions. To get 
large crops of good, sound onions of good color and small tops you must 
have only the very best seed. Cheap, carelessly grown seed will not give 
such crops, even if it is fresh and germinates well. 
Onion seed crops are short again this year, and there will very likely 
be much inferior seed sold. You can depend on our onion seed to be the 
same high quality of germination and purity that we have sold in the past. 
617 SOUTHPORT WHITE GLOBE. The best large white onion. 
Of perfect globe shape, very firm and solid, perfectly white in color 
and of fine quality. This is an excellent kind for home gardens ‘where 
first class quality is appreciated. To get perfectly white onions the 
bulbs should be pulled as soon as matured and dried in the shade. 
Pkt. 15c; 4% Oz. 40c; Oz. 75c; 14 Lb. $2.40; 4% Lb. $4.25. 
610 JAPANESE BUNCHING. Hardy green bunching 
onions or scallions. This 
onion does not form a bulb but produces long smooth pure white stalks 
used as green onions or scallions. They remain mild and sweet for a 
long time. The onions grow in clusters, three to five onions being 
produced on one plant. A bunch of these scallions is shown in the 
photo on next page. 
When sown in the spring they will produce mild scallions in the early 
fall. Seed sowed in June or July and wintered over with a mulch of 
straw or leaves will provide delicious large scallions very early in the 
spring. They are very tender and fine flavored, and excellent for both 
home and commercial growers. 
Pkt. 10c; % Oz. 35c; Oz. 60c; 144 Lb. $1.75; 4% Lb. $3.20. 
625 WHITE PORTUGAL, or Silverskin. An early flat white onion of 
good size and mild flavor, almost entirely used for bunching or “green” 
onions. When the seed is sown thick in a “ribbon row”’ the onions ma- 
ture when small and are excellent for pickling, as they are snow white 
and very firm. This is also the onion which is used for “‘White sets” to 
grow mild early green onions. (See next page under Onion Sets.) 
Pkt. 15c; % Oz. 45c; Oz. 80c; 144 Lb. $2.50; 4% Lb. $4.50. 
Please Order Vegetable Seeds by Number as well as Name. 

Sweet Spanish—utah Strain. 
7 Yellow Varieties 
620 SWEET SPANISH—Utah Strain. Large Sweet Onions in Your 
Own Garden. Year after year 
this variety has produced the largest and finest onions in our trial grounds and has 
shown most remarkable vigor and resistance to disease and insect pests. 
It may seem incredible that these large mild yellow Spanish onions can be grown 
in your own garden, but this is absolutely the case and anyone with reasonably 
good garden soil can grow them. Market gardeners and growers for the roadside 
stands, who have a particular and discriminating trade have found this a valuable 
variety. ; : ‘ 
Seed sown in the open ground in the early spring will produce magnificent large 
globe shaped onions often weighing a pound or more and of very mild pleasant flavor. 
Early boiling onions of delicious flavor and fine large dry onions for fall and winter 
of this variety are easily grown from plants. See next page for Spanish Onion Plants. 
Pkt. 15; %4 Oz. 40c; Oz. 75c; 14 Lb. $2.40. 
605 EARLY YELLOW GLOBE. Trve Strain. This is the 
eee ee best. early yellow onion, for 
both muck and upland. It is 10 days to two weeks earlier than Brigham 
Yellow Globe and will produce beautiful large globe onions even under 

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Early Yellow Globe Onions 
Grown on muck by L. R. Gillard, Elba, N. Y. 
600 BRIGHAM YELLOW GLOBE. ‘0 called “Michigan 
Onion.’’ Ours is the 
true strain of this fine onion which is noted for its long keeping qualities. 

adverse conditions. The onions are unusually large, an attractive deep 
yellow color and nearly globe shape. They have a fine tight skin which 
makes them very good keepers. This is the outstanding commercial 
onion, especially for muck, and is also a most satisfactory kind for the 
home garden. 
Pkt. 10c; % Oz. 35c; Oz. 65c; 4 Lb. $1.90; 14 Lb. $3.35. 
They are deep globe in shape with a very heavy skin of excellent dark 
color. The flesh is creamy white and of mild flavor. This variety 
yields large crops maturing about with the old Yellow Globe Danvers 
which it has now largely displaced. It has become one of the most 
popular and widely grown varieties for both muck and upland. 
Pkt. 10c; 14 Oz. 35c; Oz. 60c; 14 Lb. $1.75; 44 Lb. $3.20. 
ONIONS continued on next page. 
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