Onion Raising; What Kinds to Raise, And the Way to Raise Them
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21 poor keeper. It is a sweet, mild onion of good size for family use, though averaging considerably smaller than the varieties that have been described. Here let me say, that, for family use, except for frying, the common onions of the market are much too large to be economical : the two outer layers of an onion four inches and upwards in diam- eter, though making up about half the bulk, are usually coarse and tough, and slough off when boiled. The sweetest, tenderest, and most economical onio...ns for this purpose of the yellow sort are those that are from two to three inches in diameter. THE QUEEN. OF THE NEWER SORTS, the " Queen a white English variety grow- ing from two to two and one-half inches in diameter, is doubtless the earliest at present known, — so early that under favorable circum- stances it may grow from seed to a market size about as soon as those raised from Philadelphia sets. SOUTHPORT WHITE GLOBE. THIS IS a large, globular, white variety, that is about as round, and, when cured in the shade, about as white, as a snow-ball, being the handsomest of all onions.
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