Dreer's garden calendar : 1884 . drills, keeping themveil hoed and free from weeds ; for this purpose the Red Wethersfield and Yellow Danvers are usually preferred. They delight in a strong, rich, deep, loamy soil; the ground should be deeply dug and heavily manured withwell-rotted manure, succeeding; well if grown successive years on the same ground. Seed can be sown in August and September, and left out all winter without injury, being hardy, in drills wideenough apart to admit of working, and when they have grown of sufficient size in the spring to be fit for table use,thin out to 4 inches
Dreer's garden calendar : 1884 . drills, keeping themveil hoed and free from weeds ; for this purpose the Red Wethersfield and Yellow Danvers are usually preferred. They delight in a strong, rich, deep, loamy soil; the ground should be deeply dug and heavily manured withwell-rotted manure, succeeding; well if grown successive years on the same ground. Seed can be sown in August and September, and left out all winter without injury, being hardy, in drills wideenough apart to admit of working, and when they have grown of sufficient size in the spring to be fit for table use,thin out to 4 inches apart, to allow the remaining crop to mature to large Onions. Potato Onions should be planted in April, placing them 10 inches apart, with the crown of the bulb just below thesurface of the ground ; earth up a little at each time of cultivation ; when tops are dead they are ready to be taken up. Remit for postage, 16 els. per pound, or 25 cts. per quart orfraction thereof, when ordered to be sent by mail. DREERS GARDEN I Martynia Proboscidea. 2. White, or Silver-Skin Onion. 3 Yellow Strasburg Onion 4. Early White Queen Onion. 5. Red Wethersfield Onion. 6. Yellow Danvers Onion. 7. Large Sweet Bell Peh-er. r 8. Cashaw Pumpkin. 9. Small Chili Pepper. 10. Tomato, or Squash-Shaped | Pbpper. I 11. Large Cheese Pumpkin. Lakge Suoar, ok Hollow CoRWN Dwarf Green Red Cayenne Extra Curled Par* LEY. 26 DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. ONION— Continued. White, or Silver Skin. A mild-flavored early variety, extensively grown for pickling, but not Pkt. Oz. lb. as good a keeper as the Yellow Strasburg, ^ 5 20 2 50 Yellow Strasburg, or Yellow Dutch. The leading vtarket variety, a. good keeper, and well flavored; of a bright straw-colored skin and somewhat flattened shape 5 15 2 00 Danvers Yellow. An excellent early oval, straw-colored variety, of mild flavor, productive, and good keeper 5 15 2 oq Large Red Wethersfield. The leading variety of the East
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