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Woodruff’s Early Yellow Globe 
Yellow Varieties 
WOODRUFF’S EARLY YELLOW GLOBE 95-100 days 
A sure bulbing strain for early market, producing a crop 
when others fail. The bulbs are medium large, globular to 
slightly flattened, with a thick, deep yellow skin and a creamy 
flesh frequently tinged greenish. 
VICTORY (Japanese, Ebenezer) 100-105 days 
Introduced by Woodruff in 1916 and extensively used for 
sets. The bulb is yellow, flattened, a heavy yielder and a 
fair keeper. The skin is dark yellow with creamy yellow 
flesh, crisp and very sweet. 
UTAH SWEET SPANISH 113-118 days 
A good variety for fall storage and shipping. The bulbs 
have an amber skin of medium thickness, are large, globular 
and firm, with creamy white flesh. 
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BRIGHAM YELLOW GLOBE 
110-115 days 
This fine onion is noted for its long 
keeping qualities. It is a deep globe 
with a very heavy skin of excellent 
dark yellow color. 
GOLDEN MARVEL 
(Golden Globe) 
This 
bottlenecked globe, with dark golden 
skin which is thick and tough. The 
flesh is creamy yellow, firm and mild. 
115-120 days 
produces a medium large, 
It is a good storage or market variety 
and is also used for the production of 
sets. 
TEXAS EARLY GRANO 
85-88 days 
Though not a good storage onion, 
this variety is recommended for fall 
planting in Texas and the Southwest, 
for its extreme earliness and resistance to thrips. The bulbs 
are medium size, top shape, light yellow and have a mild 
flavor. 
YELLOW BERMUDA 
A very early, flat onion with pale straw-color skin, grown 
mostly in the Southwest and West. It is also called White 
90-95 days 
Bermuda. The flavor is very mild. 
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This Bermuda variety was developed by the U.S.D.A. and 
72-78 days 
the California and Texas Experiment Stations, particularly 
for use in Texas, where its extreme uniformity results in 
high yield. It is almost free from bolters and doubles and is 
not supposed to be a good keeper. It is a little deeper than 
Yellow Bermuda and considerably larger, with very mild, 
cream colored flesh. 
