Favored for Flavor — ONIONS, PARSLEY 
ONION SEED McDONALD'S FARMERS ALMANAC FOR 1952 
Fifty-fourth year of publication tells when 
to plant and harvest by the moon. Prediction 
—About crops, the weather. 
Price 30c each, postpaid. 
One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill. Sow 
early in the spring, as soon as weather permits, 
in rows 12 to 15 inches apart, half inch deep. 
If aes grow too thick, thin to one inch 
apart. 
Crystal White Wax Bermuda—90 days. Crys- 
tal white with a decided waxy appearance. 
It is the earliest of the Bermuda varieties 
and makes large flat onions that are mild and 
Sweet. 
Pkt. 10¢; %4 oz. 20c, postpaid. 
PARSLEY 
Parsley—Grows in any garden soil. Seed is 
rather slow in germinating and should be 
planted early in the spring in rows 12 inches 
apart. 
Yellow Sweet Spanish Valencia—110 days. A 
handsome, large, globular shape, yellow 
onion, and the flesh is pure, clear white, 
tender, and remarkably mild and sweet in 
flavor. A good keeper. 
Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c, postpaid. 
Triple Curled—A quick growing, distinct dwarf 
and handsome variety of compact growth 
with finely curled leaves of a deep emerald- 
green; very attractive when used for gar- 
nishing. 
Pkt., 10c; oz., 25¢, postpaid. 
Red Wethersfield—100 days. Bulbs 2 to 2% 
inches thick, flat, deep red, flesh pinkish 
white and firm. 
Pkt. 10¢; 4 oz. 20c, postpaid. 
PARSNIPS 
This is a hardy vegetable used for food for 
both humans and stock. It is grown similar 
Prizetaker—105 days. The skin i 1 llow, i i 
y in 18 pale yellow to the carrot, and requires a rich, loamy soil. 
the flesh pure white. It is very productive, 
globe shape and a good keeper. 
Pkt. 10: 4 oz. 20c, postpaid. Improved Hollow Crown—A great cropper and 
considered the best for cultivation. The roots 
are long, smooth, tender, and very sugary. 
White Sweet Spanish—A t, mild, 1 ie siete 
onion. a Con Meat oR CRYSTAL WHITE WAX BERMUDA Pkt Mcdararourostpald 
Pkt. 10c; 4 oz. 20c, postpaid. 
Southport Yalow Stone taree, cite shaped © BERMUDA ONION SEED POTATOES 
and very productive. PLANTS 
Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c, postpaid. 
We carry in stock during planting time 
300 plants for 100 ft. row Northern grown certified Red Warbas, Bliss 
These plants give you two months’ start Triumph and Irish Cobblers. Prices on request. 
over seed, maturing onions of highest quality. 
ONION SETS The Bermuda onion is the sweetest type of all 
onions. 
We Will Gladly Quote Prices on Request Per bunch, 35c¢, postpaid. 
Creamed PEAS—What a Jreat 
Peas require a good, well worked garden soil. Laxtonian—A dwarf pea with large, handsome 
Plant as early in the spring as the ground can pods very similar to the Gradus, which vari- 
be worked, for the early smooth seeded varie- ety it excels in yield and earliness. Vines 
ties, in rows about 8 to 10 inches apart and 144 average 15 inches in length, and the pods 3% 
in eeeee: The paipbise varieties should be inches. 
planted later as they require a warmer soil. 2 - i 
Ons pound of seed is required for 100 feet of Pie, 10 CiaIS S5Ccr Salih siae elu beetecld: 
rill. 
Thomas Laxton—60 days. A cross between little Marvel—62 days. The most satisfactory 
Gradus and Alaska. In earliness it is two pea in the average home garden. It remaina 
or three days behind Alaska, and in yield, in prime picking condition a week longer 
far superior. The pods are larger, contain- than the older sorts. Foliage and pods very 
ing sweet, large peas of fine flavor. Vines deep green; pods 8 inches long, nearly 
from 30 to 35 inches. round arid square-ended, containing 6 to 7 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 50c; 5 Ibs. $2.50, postpaid. very dark green peas. Lucious and sugary. 
Vines grow 18 inches tall. It is very pro- 
ductive, 
Pkt. 10¢; Ib. 50¢; 5 Ibs. $2.50, postpaid. 
Laxton’s Progress—One of the earliest large 
podded, dwarf peas and excellent for home 
or market gardening. Vines grow about 
16 inches, pods 4 inches long, broad and 
pointed. Makes in about 60 days. 
Pkt. 10¢; Ib. 50c; 5 Ibs. $2.50, postpaid. 
Telephone—75 days. A large sort, with tall- 
growing vines. The pods are very large, with 
large peas of delicious flavor. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 50c; 5 Ibs. $2.50, postpaid. 
pmctics ; Wonder, ine. plants ere nonly ae 
inches high and produce an abundance o 
medium-size pods, which are filled with FAXTONIAN 
large, sweet peas of luscious quality. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 50c; 5 Ibs. $2.50, postpaid. 
You'll Never Know Real Peas Until You 
Alaska—57 days. The earliest smooth pea in Grow Them. 
existence. The pods are medium in size, 
well filled and mature practically all at one woes ron payee apiyesresnas See Gr oe 
time. licious garden peas can be until 
LITTLE MARVEL Pkt. 10c; Ib. 40c; 5 Ibs. $1.50, postpaid. your own. wer ehbee 
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