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ONION.
tainly be superfluous and useless; yet to describe
the different varieties is indispensably necessary.
Varieties.
There are a considerable variety of Onions,
and those most cultivated are, the Deptford,
which is middle-^ized, globular, and a pale brown
colour, and very generally cultivated; the Globe
is large, globular, pale brown, tinged with red,
mild, and keeps well; James’s Keeping Onion,
large, pyramidal, brown, tinged with red, mild,
and keeps well; Strasburg, oval, large, light red,
tinged with green, hardy, keeps well, but of
strong flavour—much the most cultivated; the
Portugal Onion, is large, flatly globular, mild,
and does not keep well; Spanish, large, flat,
white, tinged with green, but does not keep well;
Brown Spanish, differing nothing from the last,
only in colour, which is brown; Silver-skinned,
flat, middle-sized, and shining, one of the best
for pickling; Blood-red,'“middle-sized, flat, very
hardy, deep red, strong flavour, and kq^ps par¬
ticularly well; Welsh Onion, hardy, does not
bulb, but is sown in autumn to draw in spring,
and is strong flavoured; Potatoe Onion, this mul¬
tiplies itself by the formation of young bulbs on
the parent root, and produces an ample crap
below the surface; it ripens well, but does not
keep well in the spring, aud has a strong flavour.
Estimate of Sorts.
The Portugal and Spanish are considered the
best for early use, and yield large crops; but the