Garden and farm manual : 1905 . »* ? -• ?SW.^rS:i>s;,.i»ji ?vjf^v^lf DTiiontEED There is no vegetable in which the quality of the seed exerts a greater influence upon the crop thanin onions. Our stock is all grown from choice bulbs, selected by hand, and is unsurpassed in thiscountry. During our whole business career as seedsmen, it has always been our aim to make quality afirst consideration, price afterwards, and in no one crop have we met with greater reward for our effortsthan in onions, the demand for our seed having increased so rapidly that we have been obliged tolargely increase our
Garden and farm manual : 1905 . »* ? -• ?SW.^rS:i>s;,.i»ji ?vjf^v^lf DTiiontEED There is no vegetable in which the quality of the seed exerts a greater influence upon the crop thanin onions. Our stock is all grown from choice bulbs, selected by hand, and is unsurpassed in thiscountry. During our whole business career as seedsmen, it has always been our aim to make quality afirst consideration, price afterwards, and in no one crop have we met with greater reward for our effortsthan in onions, the demand for our seed having increased so rapidly that we have been obliged tolargely increase our facilities for growing every year for several years past. One ounce will sow one hundred feet of drill. To grow large onions from seed, five pounds to theacre; to grow small sets, fifty to sixty pounds to the acre are required. For full information for culture,storage and marketing onions and onion sets, see our New Leatlet=Essays on this subject, which willbe sent free with all orders for onion seed, when Philadelphia Yellow Globe Danvers Onion Do Not Confound with the Ordinary Yellow Globe Danvers of Other Growers This improved variety is pronounced by onion growers, who now grow it in preference to all otheronions, the very best strain in cultivation It is the earliest yellow globe variety, large in size, uni-formly perfect in shape and the largest cropper, producing from seed 1,000 bushels to the acre withgood cultivation. It is also the most reliable for bottoming, and one of the best keepers of all Ameri-can Onions. Prices, new crop, Pedigree Tested Seed, grown from selected bulbs : Pkt.,be ; oz., 15c; \ lb., 30c.; lb., $, by mail, postpaid; by express or freight, lb., 90c. 5-lb. lots for $;10 lbs., 80c. per lb.; 25 lbs. and over, 75c. per lb. Wm. D. Robinson, Fairport, N. Y., Aug. 1,1904, writes: The purest and finest strain of Yellow Onion ever raised inthis county is your Philadelphia Yellow Globe Danvers. Myfather, who has raised
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