. Annual catalogue of celebrated trademark seeds and other specialties. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Potatoes Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Indiana Indianapolis. All of the varieties grow very rapidly from seed, and are sweeter and of more delicate flavor than our American onions; while the bulbs are ot tbe most beautiful shape and color. W e advise grow- ers to devote their main crop to the ^^merican varie- ties, yet we recommend them to vary it by planting part of the Italians. "We recommend them highly for summer and autumn
. Annual catalogue of celebrated trademark seeds and other specialties. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Potatoes Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Indiana Indianapolis. All of the varieties grow very rapidly from seed, and are sweeter and of more delicate flavor than our American onions; while the bulbs are ot tbe most beautiful shape and color. W e advise grow- ers to devote their main crop to the ^^merican varie- ties, yet we recommend them to vary it by planting part of the Italians. "We recommend them highly for summer and autumn use in the family, whild if mar- keted they command fancy prices. Giant Rocco or Naples ^^wnVSae liS- ian onions in this country. Quite extensively grown in some sections, where they produce immense crops, single bulbs weighing 1% to 2 pounds each. Flavor very mild and delicate; color, light brown, flesh, white; very handsome, globular shape ; a good keeper. Pkt. 6c, oz. 10c, 34 lb. 30c, lb. $ Mammoth Silver King ISy^^L^nSfi™: est and most beautiful onions in the world. Single specimens have weighed as much as pounds. No other onion excels in mild and delicate flavor, or has a more handsome and beautiful silvery white appear- ance. So mild are they in taste that they can be eaten raw like an apple. They always command a high price in the market. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, %lh 30c, lb. $ Spanish King The outside skin is of a rich, yellow Btraw color, while the flesh is white, sweet, mild and tender. They bottom well, are free from stiff necks and have produced more bushels () market- able onions to the acre than any other variety known. Very rapid growth and matures early. In market it attracts marked attention. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15, M l"*. 45c, lb. $ Giant White Italian Tripoli ?4St bllui tiful form, with fine white skin. The first season from the black seed it will grow an onion from 1 to 1^ pound, but to attain the full size s ed should be started in a hot bed a
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