. 1900 catalogue : home grown seeds. Nursery stock Connecticut Orange Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. RELIABLE GARDEN SEEDS. 211 Onions—continued. Yellow Danvers. A heavy cropping, early flat sort, used in some sections almost exclusively. Price per 5c; oz., 15c.; ^ lb., 40c; lb., $; 5 lb. lots at $ per lb. White Portugal, or Silverskin. A very mild, early sort, used extensively for pick- ling. This is the variety also used so extensively for raising sets. We have a very fine but limited stock and advise early orders. Price p
. 1900 catalogue : home grown seeds. Nursery stock Connecticut Orange Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. RELIABLE GARDEN SEEDS. 211 Onions—continued. Yellow Danvers. A heavy cropping, early flat sort, used in some sections almost exclusively. Price per 5c; oz., 15c.; ^ lb., 40c; lb., $; 5 lb. lots at $ per lb. White Portugal, or Silverskin. A very mild, early sort, used extensively for pick- ling. This is the variety also used so extensively for raising sets. We have a very fine but limited stock and advise early orders. Price per pkt., 5c; oz., 20c; 34 lb., 70c; lb., $; 5 lb. lots at $ per lb. Yellow Dutch, or Strasburg. A very hardy, bright straw-colored onion, good keeper, somewhat flattened, very solid and firm. This variety is used more than any other yellow sort for raising sets and is peculiarly adapted for that purpose. Price per pkt., 5c.; oz., 15c.; M lb., 40c; lb., $; 5 lbs. at $ per lb. Mammoth Prize Taker, or Large Yellow Spanish. This is the large, beautiful onion that is seen every Fall offered for sale at fruit stores in the large cities. They are a rich straw-color, and of enormous size, averaging twelve to fourteen inches in circumference. The flavor is mild and delicate, making the Prize Taker a favorite variety for slicing for salads. Price per pkt., 5c.; oz., 25c; 1^ lb., 50c; lb., $; 5 lbs. at $ per lb. "White Q-ueen. An extra early small white onion, pure paper white and mild; favorite picklirjg sort. Price per pkt., 5c; oz , 25c; \i lb., 65c; lb., $ One of the Banner Crops of Yellow Globe Danvers Onions Grown from Our Seed. Mr. Clayton S. Parsons, Northampton, Mass., grew four acres of onions in one piece. He entered one acre from the plot for a premium in the Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Agricultural Society. He received first premium, the yield for the acre, according to the official measurement of the judges, being 835 bu. of 52 lbs. pe
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