. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1136 ONION ONION and third thinningrs may be used on the table. Fig. 1530. It is very important that the best grade of seed be used, for the Onion deteriorates rapidly from seed which is not well grown nor carefully selected. There are great numbers of varieties. The most popular standard field kinds are Southp
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1136 ONION ONION and third thinningrs may be used on the table. Fig. 1530. It is very important that the best grade of seed be used, for the Onion deteriorates rapidly from seed which is not well grown nor carefully selected. There are great numbers of varieties. The most popular standard field kinds are Southport Red and Yellow -i^'^i^^-rTi^^. 1528. The old-time Onion bed. Globe, and these are also to be advised for the main reliance in the home garden. For early use and for variety, great numbers of kinds may be selected from reliable seed catalogues. Some of the quick-growing southern Onions are excellent for early use. There are two general methods of propagating the Onion—by seeds and by bulbs. Onion seed is ordinarily known as "black seed," although there is no Onion seed which is not black. The main field crop is grown from seeds, as explained in the articles ^vhich follow. The Onion seed of the market is produced from full grown and typical bulbs of the desired variety. These bulbs are grown from seed and are kept over winter as other Onions are. In the spring they are planted out in rows two feet apart and as near together in the row as they will stand. They send up a flower stalk which blooms in early summer, and the seed is harvested. Propagation by bulbs is employed for the purpose of securing early Onions for home use or for the special early-season trade. Until within recent years, all the very early or bunch Onions were raised from bnlbs, but recently a so-called "new Onion culture" has come into vogue, which consists in sowing seeds in hotbeds or coldframes and transplanting the young plants. Bnlb- propagation is of three general categories: (1)
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