. Descriptive catalogue of high grade seeds for the garden and farm, 1902. Nursery stock Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Cereal grasses Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 25. ONION. We strongly advise our customers to give more at- tention to the planting of onions, as they are proving a very profitable and satisfactory crop, both for sale in our home mar- kets and for shipping. Onions must be planted on clean rich, soil for best results. HONE GROWN ONION SEED. The demand in this locality for home grown Yellow Danvers and Silve
. Descriptive catalogue of high grade seeds for the garden and farm, 1902. Nursery stock Kentucky Louisville Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Cereal grasses Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 25. ONION. We strongly advise our customers to give more at- tention to the planting of onions, as they are proving a very profitable and satisfactory crop, both for sale in our home mar- kets and for shipping. Onions must be planted on clean rich, soil for best results. HONE GROWN ONION SEED. The demand in this locality for home grown Yellow Danvers and Silver Skin Onion is always very large, as the gardeners who grow sets prefer it to Northern or Western seed. We have secured a supply of these two varieties from the best growers here, which has been carefully tested, and we think can be relied on for satis- factory results. Culture.âLarge Onions from Seed.âto grow large onions from seed the first year, sow in January or February in hot-beds or trays. As soon as the weather opens and the sets are the size of a goose-quill, transplant to rows twelve inches apart and four to six inches between the onions. Transplanting is of decided benefit to onions, making them grow larger and increasing the yield consid- erably, in some instances double the yields--, being reported over those not transplanted: They can also be sown in the open ground tm February or March, at the rate of five or six. pounds to the acre, in drills twelve inches apart, thinning out Afterwards to three or four inches apart in the drill. Tfie Italian varieties can be sown in August or in September, and transplanted about the end of October or early m November. They succeed and do very well indeed in this way. r Growing Onion Sets from Seed.âto grow onion sets the seed should be sown in broad, wide rows, at the rate of forty to fifty pounds per acre, and kept clean of weeds. In late sum- mer or whenever the tops die, remove the small bulbs, buttons or sets to a dry p
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