. Buist's garden guide and almanac. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. Large Red Wethersfield Onion. Large Red Wethersfield. —This is another favorite Onion in the East and West, where immense crops are grown for shipment. In coolsections it continues growing the whole Summer, and forms a full-grown Onion by Fall; is of a purplish-red color of a round or oval shape, and is an excellent keeping variety. Per oz , 20 cts ; % lb., 50 cts.; lb., $; 5 lbs.,at$; 10 lbs.,at $; 25 lbs ,at$ Eastern Gr
. Buist's garden guide and almanac. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. Large Red Wethersfield Onion. Large Red Wethersfield. —This is another favorite Onion in the East and West, where immense crops are grown for shipment. In coolsections it continues growing the whole Summer, and forms a full-grown Onion by Fall; is of a purplish-red color of a round or oval shape, and is an excellent keeping variety. Per oz , 20 cts ; % lb., 50 cts.; lb., $; 5 lbs.,at$; 10 lbs.,at $; 25 lbs ,at$ Eastern Grown Seed.—Per oz., 20 cts., X lb., 50 cts.; lb., $150; 5 lbs., at $; 10 lbs., at $; 25 lbs , at $ jTellow Dutch or Strasburg is of the same shape as the White Silver Skin.—Color, brownish yellow; bulb quite fiat, and of good size. This is the variety grown in Philadelphia for sets, thousands of bushels of which are an- nually shipped from this market to different parts of the United States. Seeds sown in this latitude in Spring form the small set by July; these are planted out the following Spring, and form full grown Onions by mid- summer, they are more hardy than the Whites and therefore keep better through the Win- ter. In the Southern States they can be planted out in Autumn, and will continue growing during the entire Winter, and in early Spring they will be fit to use for salads and stews Per oz , 20 cts.; % lb , 50 cts.; lb., $; 5 lb at $; 10 lb., at $; 25 lb , at $ Eastern Grown Seed.—Per oz., 20 cts.; X lb., 50 cts.; lb, $; 5 lb., at $140; 10 lb., at $; 25 lb., at $ White Silver Skin Onion. White Silver Skin.—This is the famous variety which is sown so extensively in Philadelphia, for growing Onion Sets, from which full grown onions are produced by June and July, it is not only the mildest but the most delicate flavored variety, and generally preferred for table use; is of the same shape as the Yellow Dutch or Stras
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