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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_9 (find matches)
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit trees
Publisher: Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Italian O^iops, During the past few years Italian Onions have come into favor with astonishing rapidity. Where a few years ago they were grown only as fancy garden crops, they are now planted extensively for market, and they are, too, a profitable crop. They are of rapid growth and attain very large size in a wonderfully short time. They are not only large, but very uniform, Eerfect in shape, and exceedingly handsome in appearance. In quality they are acknowledged on all sides to be the best, aving an exceedingly mild, delicate and pleasant flavor. For eating raw they are of course greatly superior to other Onions, owing to the mildness of their flavor. These Onions do best on a rich, light or sandy soil, in a warm, and if possible, * eltered situation, if one desires to see them at their best. No garden is complete without a good supply of Italian Onions. Mammoth Silver King—A superb Onion that sometimes grows to weigh 2 or 4 pounds. Silver-skinned, white flesh, very mild and tender—so mild, sweet and tender than it can be eaten raw like an apple. It has an average diameter of 5 to 7 inches, making a circumference of 15 to 20 iuches. It is probably the most popular Italian Onion known to cultivation. A grand seller in all mar- kets. Pkt., loc.; oz., 20c.; lb., $2.00. Prize Taker—A very large, yellow globe Onion, very hand- some, fine flavor and grand sort for market. Immensely productive, producing 700 bushels to the acre and is claimed by the introducer to be the largest, handsomest, finest-flavored yellow globe Onion ever introduced. It is a good keeper. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 20e.; lb., $1.75. Mammoth Pompeii—A most remarkable Onion on account of its enormous size and fine quality. It often grows to the weight of 4 or 5 pounds, with a very thin and deli- cate skin, which is of a handsome reddish or reddish- brown color. Notwithstanding its great size, it is ex- ceedingly mild and fine grained. Extra fine; easy culture; /good keeper. Pkt., loc.; oz., 20c.; lb., $1.50. \ JEarly Radish, or Barletta—The prettiest, button-like little p» Onion imaginable. Small, flat, and silver-skinned, so mild in flavor that they can be eaten raw, like a stalk of Celery, and for pickling are far ahead of any other Onion, Leaves almost no odor on the breath, and is liked by all. Three weeks earlier than any other Onion and grows very readily from seed. Is used largely for eating raw, like a radish, yet when cooked it has the most delicate flavor of any Onion. Introduced by us several years ago as Early Radish, about the time it was introduced into France as Barletta. Pkt., 10c.; oz„ 20c.; lb., $2,00. SPECIAL OFFER. TJiat all may have a chance to test the various kinds of Oniom, to ascertain which ones dobest in their locality, we wiU send one packet each of the 10 sorts offered on these two pages for only 50c. One ounce of each for $1.50,

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