. Descriptive catalogue of high grade seeds for the farm and garden. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Virginia Richmond. 38 T. W. WOOD & SONS, Richmond, Va. White Adriatic Barletta. This onion is spe- cially recommended on account of its extreme earliness. It is one of the handsomest and neatest onions we have ever seen, and is the per- fection of a pickling sort. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 25 cts.; ^ lb. 65 cts.; lb. $ New White Queen. A beautiful small silver skinned variety of fine ke


. Descriptive catalogue of high grade seeds for the farm and garden. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Virginia Richmond. 38 T. W. WOOD & SONS, Richmond, Va. White Adriatic Barletta. This onion is spe- cially recommended on account of its extreme earliness. It is one of the handsomest and neatest onions we have ever seen, and is the per- fection of a pickling sort. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 25 cts.; ^ lb. 65 cts.; lb. $ New White Queen. A beautiful small silver skinned variety of fine keeping qualifies. Very mild flavored, and excellent for pickling. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 20 cts.; ^Ib. 60 cts.; lb. § If to be sent by jnail, add ten cents pei' quart to cover postage. Ctiltiire.—Make drills about an inch deep, and twelve inches apart. Plant the small sets in these drills four inches apart, but do not cover them. In a few days they will com-mence growing. If any of the sets throw up a seed stalk, break it off. Potato Onion sets should be planted in rows fifteen inches apart and nine inches between the sets,^ and then covered with about one inch of soil. As the onions make on the top of the old set, it is well to apply manure on the top of the soil. White Potato Onions. A new kind of the Potato Onion, differing from the old sort, in that it is a pure white onion. It is of medium size, hardy and productive. In flavor it is unsur- passed, and we specially recommend it as the best keeping onion known. Onions, kept by us nearly a year after they were harvested, were as firm and solid as could be desired. Its whiteness, fine flavor, and good keeping qualities, make it very desirable. Per qt. 20 cts.; peck, %\. ; bush. $ Yellow Potato Onion Sets. The largest yielding and most profitable onion to grow in the South. It is of large size and mild flavor. This variety, like the preceding, grow^ from sets only, it never makes seed. They can be set out either in t


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