ONION 
Can be transplanted or sown directly. Use DDT for thrips control. 
Onions require rich, well worked soil for top quality bulbs. 
Properly applied, potassium cyanate (Aero-Cyanate) has given the 
best control of weeds in onion fields. 
HYBRID ONIONS. The AsGRow series of hybrid onions continues 
to out-perform corresponding open-pollinated varieties wherever 
the two types have been compared. Asgrow Y40 and Asgrow 
Y41 have been grown extensively in the important onion-growing 
regions of the North and East, and their impressive crops have 
led to yearly increasing demands for seed by those who have 
tried them or have seen them growing. The principal advan- 
tages of ASGROW hybrids are: greater uniformity, heavier yields 
and higher percentages of No. 1 bulbs. In some cases, as noted, 
they mature significantly earlier than their counterparts among 
open-pollinated onions, an important factor in areas where late- 
season diseases reduce marketable yields. 
LONG DAY ONIONS for northern growers 
WHAT THE NAMES MEAN. The naming of these hybrids has 
been designed to make their principal characters easily recog- 
nized. Each name begins with the word Asgrow, then a letter 
denoting color—Y, W, R, or B—then a number, which for short- 
day onions is from 1 to 29, and for long-day onions from 30 to 99. 
Thus Asgrow Y42 is an AsGRow hybrid of long-day type, produc- 
ing yellow bulbs; Asgrow W45 is a long-day hybrid producing 
white bulbs. 
SHORT DAY HYBRIDS. AsGrow is also producing seed of several 
new hybrids developed jointly for short-day areas by the U.S.D.A. 
and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Compared with 
open-pollinated varieties of similar type, these new hybrids have 
shown notably greater uniformity and disease resistance and have 
been less subject to bolting. Already they are replacing the older 
varieties in many places where short-day onions are grown. 
Variety Days Shape Size Skin Flesh Storage Remarks 
HYBRIDS F 
Asgrow Y40 ; Rl ches 88 near-globe medium yellow medium soft; mild fair See below. 
Asgrow Y41 .. ey: 98 globe to large yellow soft; mild fair See below. 
round-oval 
Asgrow Y42 105 globe large yellow medium firm; medium See next page. 
mild 
Asgrow Y43 _.. 108 near-globe medium yellow medium firm; medium See next page. 
large medium pungent 
INSSLO Wa Xs): | eee gees eee 98 globe to medium yellow medium firm; mild medium See next page. 
round-oval 
Asgrow B47 110 globe medium brown hard; pungent excellent See next page. 
Asgrow W45 Te 100 globe medium _ white medium firm, medium See next page. 
large medium pungent 
OPEN-POLLINATED 
Brigham Yellow Globe .......... 109 deep round large brownish solid good See next page. 
Downing’s Yellow Globe ........ 110 — globe large brownish very solid very good Popular in Midwest. 
legidhy eS GIODE: ce a wp ec ee 98 globe medium yellow medium soft fair See next page. 
Evergreen White Bunching (Nebuka) A TTT cee” (Ee ee Pe ye tes See next page. 
sroumlayororn: IealGilOlee 10 globe large red white, pungent good Best red variety. 
Southport White Globe |. a i 10 round medium white, thin _ fine, solid, waxy good Standard white. — 
White Lisbon _ 60 5 ea ee eae eee Pe For early bunching. 
White Portugal (Silverskin) — ee OOmmethnicketiap medium white hard, fine-grained good All-purpose. 
Wihite Sweets panish seer 110 globe large white hard, mild fair Largest white. 
Yellow Sweet Spanish .......... 115 globe large hr white, sweet, mild good Old favorite. 
rown 
ASGROW Y40. An early, medium day-length onion of Early 
Yellow Globe type but maturing earlier; adapted to the mid- 
South and for first crop in Northern areas. The bulbs are 
globular, with somewhat elongated bottom. The flesh is 
medium soft, with mild flavor. For limited storage only. 
Seed supply limited. 
es 
(Left) Yellow, Sweet Spanish, still growing. 
(Right) Asgrow Y41, harvested and in the bag. 
ASGROW Y41. Also of Early Yellow Globe type, but larger, 
higher yielding and more uniform, adapted to the same areas. 
The bulbs are globular to round-oval, and 20 to 50 per cent 
larger than Early Yellow Globe. The flesh is sweeter and 
milder. Not primarily a storage onion. Seed supply limited. 
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