. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. 1530. Bunch On offered by American dealers, and also about 20 kindsof multipliers, potato Onions and sets. For purposes ofcareful scientific study, the varieties may be classifiedinto geographical races, but for purposes of descriptionthey may be assembled into groups characterized
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. 1530. Bunch On offered by American dealers, and also about 20 kindsof multipliers, potato Onions and sets. For purposes ofcareful scientific study, the varieties may be classifiedinto geographical races, but for purposes of descriptionthey may be assembled into groups characterized bysuch arbitrary features as form and color of bulb. ONION ONION 1137 Goff (6 Rep. N. Y. State Exp. Sta., tor the year 1887),classifies first by shape of bulb and then by color. Hemakes four primary groups: bulb oblate, spherical, top-shape, oval or pear-shape. Each of these groups isdivided in three sections: color white, yellow or brown-ish, red or reddish. Another classification (Bailey,Bull. 31 Mich. Agric. College, 1887), makes three pri-mary sections on methods of propagation: propagated. 1531. Tod Onions (X%) by division (multipliers),by bulbletsortops,by seeds(or sets). The last section (seed Onions) is dividedinto oulbs silvery white and bulbs colored, and thesegroups are again divided on shape of bulb. Aside from the chapters on Onions in the vegetable-gardening manuals, there are special treatises, as Grei-ners Onions for Profit, and The New Onion Cul-ture, tireiner and Arlies How to Grow Onions, andthe Orange Judd Companys Onion Book. The cultivated onion-like plants may be named undersix species, as follows: A. Leaves terete and Plant annual or biennial, the bulbs evident. Allium C6pa, Linn. Common Onion. Bulbs various,but distinctly rounded at top and bottom: scape tall andstout (usually 2-3 ft.), enlarging in the middle, glau-cous, much exceeding the large soft hollow leaves: round umbels (Fig. 1534) white or blush. Persia andadjacent regions. Var
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