


(3 NORTHRUP, KING & CO..S VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS 

Southport Yellow Globe, 
Brigham Strain 110 days 
A selection from Southport Yellow Globe 
for thick skin and keeping qualities. This 
variety has done especially well on peat and 
muck soils. The bulbs are deep globe shape, 
color is dark yellow or orange yellow. The 
skin is thick and there appears to be an ex- 
tra layer. A very excellent storage variety. 
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 
Small top. 
Replaced by the Utah Strain. 
Ibs., and unusually mild. 
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 halt 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 (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. 
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 Ebenezer 
A white selection from Ebenezer. Bulbs 
solid and of good keeping qualities. Shape 
and habits similar to Ebenezer. White color 
not as clear as White Portugal. 
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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