. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. With Onions, more than with any other vegetable, Cauliflowers only excepted, the outcome depends large- ly upon the seed. Good seed alone can bring a glad harvest. It should be obtained from a reliable grower or dealer, for there is always a large stock of poor, worse than worthless, seed in the market. Cheapness in Onion Seed carries with it a suspicion of inferiority. The grower can ill afford to run risks for the sake of savi
. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. With Onions, more than with any other vegetable, Cauliflowers only excepted, the outcome depends large- ly upon the seed. Good seed alone can bring a glad harvest. It should be obtained from a reliable grower or dealer, for there is always a large stock of poor, worse than worthless, seed in the market. Cheapness in Onion Seed carries with it a suspicion of inferiority. The grower can ill afford to run risks for the sake of saving a few dollars, when he has hundreds at stake in his prospective Onion Crop. By all means go sure ; pay a good price and plant good seed.—Extract fro?n Mr. T. Greiner''s Es- say in How TO Grow Onions. All who have had experience in growing Onions will heartily agree with the writer of the above . that Good Onion Seed is of the utmost importance. Fully realizing this, we have for some years made A SPECIALTY OF ONION SEED, and have all our crops raised under special contract, subject to personal supervision. Our Onion Seed is all groiun from choice, selected bulbs, critically examined before being set out for seed, and we do not hesitate to warrant every ounce of the seed thoroughly reliable in every respect. In quality it is vastly superior to much that is put upon the market, often grown by persons either too inexperienced or too careless to select fine, well-shaped bulba In vitality, it is very strong, being heavy, fresh seed, carefully tested. The very rapid increase in our Onion Seed trade, particularly among market gardeners, many of whom order from 25 to 100 lbs. of seed, is the very best evidence that our Onion Seed is unexcelled in quality. THF P'ROPS OF The past season the crops of Onion Seed have been somewhat 1 V^ivwr O V^i lUUU. shorter than for several years previously. Fortunately we had a larger area in cultivation than usual, and believing in '•^Quick
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