SHORT DAY ONIONS for southern growers 
Remarks 
Variety Days Shape Size Skin Flesh Storage 
HYBRIDS 
Granex . ; S Ra S See 78 deep-flat large yellow white, mild fair See below. 
eXaStELVOUIC 2 0 ete. 80 thick-flat large yellow white, mild fair See below. 
Jexas Hybrid 282... Soe 78 thick-flat large yellow white, mild fair See below. 
OPEN-POLLINATED 
Crystal Wax (White Bermuda) 93 very flat medium white white. mild fair Standard white. 
Excel (Bermuda 986) ..... 85 thick-flat medium yellow white, mild fair Replaces Yellow Bermuda. 
[23.0302 Fee ee pare ee. 80 flat medium white white, mild fair See below. 
EB eR. ack cere ie 82 flat medium white white, mild fair See below. 
Sane) Oaquinaa ne ie 93 semi-globe large straw-yellow medium firm no Non-bolting. 
Texas Gratto 5027.57 ea... 80 top-shape large straw-yellow mild, white no See below. 
White Babosa (Grano) ... 100 rounded top medium clear white mild, white no Attractive. 
Yellow Babosa (See Texas Grano 502). 
Yellow Bermuda (See Excel). 
Granex 
GRANEX. An outstanding first-early hy- 
brid for short-day areas in the South, de- 
veloped by the U.S.D.A. and the Texas 
A.E.S., maturing with Texas Grano 502 
and before Excel. The plants show hy- 
brid vigor at all stages of growth and 
are tolerant of pink-root disease. The 
bulbs are deep-flat, with full base, and are 
well covered with attractive yellow skin. 
The flesh is sweet and mild but holds 
fairly well in storage. In trials throughout 
Texas, Granex has outyielded all other 
varieties. In the Southeast it has equaled 
Grano types in yield but has greatly ex- 
ceeded them in resistance to pink-root. 
EXCEL (Bermuda 986). Developed jointly 
Dyethem Was wos Am andmthem LexasmeAr Ens. 
A heavy-yielding variety of Yellow Ber- 
muda type but earlier and more resistant 
to splitting and bolting. The bulbs are 
uniformly thick-flat, with small tops and 
necks. Excel has largely replaced the older 
Yellow Bermuda strains in areas where 
that variety is grown. 
TEXAS HYBRID 23. Resembles Excel, 
but 4 to 5 days earlier and curing more 
readily. The scales are thin and attractive. 
Good resistance to pink root. Should be 
well adapted in areas where Excel has 
been used successfully. 
TEXAS HYBRID 28. Resembles Texas Hy- 
brid 23 but a day or two earlier, and less 
subject to splitting or bolting than Texas 
Hybrid 23 or Excel. Resistant to pink- 
root; cures well. 
JE, HOS) 
L 303 and L 365. Mid-early varieties of 
Crystal Wax type, developed jointly by 
thes UES. DlAs and thes lexas sac Sala 36> 
matures about twelve days and L 303 
about two weeks earlier than Crystal Wax. 
The bulbs of both are of typical flat Ber- 
muda shape, with good white color and 
skins that clean up well, showing little 
of the green streaking found in other 
early white varieties. Both have shown 
considerable resistance to bolting, to split- 
ting, and to pink-root. L 303 is somewhat 
the more resistant to bolting: L 365 some- 
what the more resistant to pinkroot. 
Our Pacific Coast 
Breeding Station, 
Milpitas, California, 
where most of the 
ASGROW /iybrid onions 
were developed 
under Dr. G. W. Scott. 
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