. Catalogue No. 91. Vegetables Seeds Catalog. Fruit Seeds Catalog. 18 ALEXANDER SEED COMPANY, AUGUSTA, Alexander's Southport Globe Onions. Culture.—For home use Onion Seed or Sets should be planted in any good garden soil just as early as the ground can be worked to advantage in the spring. Ground should be thoroughly broken, well fertilized or manured and then worked down very fine, all trash, clods or grass roots being removed. The use of Sets Is absolutely unnecessary except as a matter of earliness. Where well-shaped, long-keeping, marketable onions are desired plant the seed instead
. Catalogue No. 91. Vegetables Seeds Catalog. Fruit Seeds Catalog. 18 ALEXANDER SEED COMPANY, AUGUSTA, Alexander's Southport Globe Onions. Culture.—For home use Onion Seed or Sets should be planted in any good garden soil just as early as the ground can be worked to advantage in the spring. Ground should be thoroughly broken, well fertilized or manured and then worked down very fine, all trash, clods or grass roots being removed. The use of Sets Is absolutely unnecessary except as a matter of earliness. Where well-shaped, long-keeping, marketable onions are desired plant the seed instead of sets, as the seed makes much better onions in every respect. Sow 1 ounce of seed to 200 feet of row; 4 to 5 pounds per acre. Sets vary considerably in size, but the average will run about 1 pound of sets to 100 feet of row. Onions from seed will mature in 100 to 140 days, according to variety; from sets in from 80 to 100 days. Cover seed in clay or heavy soils about % inch; in sandy soils 1 inch. If weather and soil is dry, firm the soil after planting; heavy or clay soils should not be firmed when wet. As soon as seed is well up begin a little surface cultivation, and keep this up every week or ten days. Never let grass and weeds get a start, for young onion plants choked with weeds or grass die down in the "set" size, and will have to be held over until the following fall. Cultivation (always shallow) should be kept up until bulbs are well formed and matured as indicated by the dying down or dropping over of the tops. When matured dig or plow up and store in a dry place, leaving tops on until you are ready to use or market them. -This is a large yellow - skinned onion of the Spanish varieties; mild flavored; large globe-shaped variety; well liked by all growers who have tried it. Pkt. 10c; oz. 40c; H lb. $; lb. $, postpaid. Prizetaker Alexander's Southport Globe Onions (Bed, White and Yellow)—The most severe test of an onion is that which affects its
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