. 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. 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 ap
. 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. 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 the fall or spring. Equally well adapted to be sold green as a bunch onion, or as fully ma- tured large onions. Plant in early spring or from end of August to end of October, in rows fifteen inches apart, and eight or ten inches apart in the rows. Great care should be used4n select-, ing sets of this onion, as they have become badly mixed in the last few years. Many dealers, either wilfully or through ignorance, sell sets which resemble the Potato Onion, but which have de- generated to such a
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