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Title: Annual catalogue of Price & Reed, sucessors to Price & Knickerbocker, importers, growers and dealers in fine flower, vegetable and field seeds : also dealers in horticultural and agricultural implements
Identifier: annualcatalogueo1894alba (find matches)
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Albany Seed Store (Albany, N. Y. ); Price & Reed; Price & Knickerbocker; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs New York (State) Albany
Publisher: Albany, N. Y. : Albany Seed Store
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Price & Reed, Albany, N. Y. ONIONS. Onions should be sown thinly in drills, one inch deep and twel/e to sixteen inches apart, in a rich, loamy soil, deeply dug and lightly rolled It is better to have land that has been used for hoed crops for a year or two, and has been well manured. It the requisite amount of manure is put on all at once it is apt to make the bulbs soft. If manured gradually the land cannot be made too rich. The manure, how- ever, should not be rank, but should be well fermented. Ground bone or superphosphate may be used, but if they are, they should be well applied partly when the crop is sown and partly as the bulbs begin to form. Thin seeding gives laiger bulbs than thick. It is advisable to use a seed drill in planting, first testing the regulator upon a floor to see if it allows the seed to pass out in proper proportions. About four pounds to the acre is usually sown. If the drill used has no roller, a hand roller should be passed over the ground immediately after sowing. As soon as the onions are up so that the rows can be seen, they should have the first hoeing, just skimming the ground between the rows. After a few days they should be hoed close up to the plants and weeded. This must be done thoroughly. In about two weeks another hoeing and weeding should be given, and in two weeks more still another. All Best Quality Eastern Grown. Packets of each variety, 5 cts. Extra Early Bound Bed. An earlv variety, round Pr oz Pr lb in form $0 20 ;2 00 LABGE BED WETHEBSFIELiD, Standard, large, deep red, good keeper; our own growing 20 1 75 Eiarge Bed Globe. Globular in form, mild flavor 21) 1 7.) YELiIiOW D AN VEBS. A fine variety, of mild flavor, very productive and keeps well; a standard variety 20 1 50 irEL,l,OW G1.0BE DANVEBS. A good yielder and keeper 20 1 75 IMPBOVED YELiIiOW GLOBE DANVERS. (Selected stock.) Early, a good keeper, round in form and a great yielder; 600 bushels of fine, large sound onions were grown on an acre from our seed. T/iis is a 7'emarkably fine strain of jnany years^ selection. It does not differ much in shape from the Yellow Globe Danvers, but is a sure cropper, and will produce more large, sound onions than any variety grown. Yellow Dutcli. The commoner variety, rather flat shaped, good keeper Southport Vellow Globe. Globular shaped, mild and yields well._ _ Wliite Portugal or Silver Skin. Flavor mild, fair size, handsome shape --. -- WHITE GLiOBE. Oval form, white, mild and pleasant flavor; keeps well; a fine variety _ PBIZE XAKEB. A large, handsome Globe onion of fine shape, and light straw color, has a small neck, is firm and solid, a great yielder and fine keeper Maminotli Silver King'. Grows to a large size, sometimes five to seven inches in diameter ; skin and flesh white, of mild and pleasant flavor Tlie Queen. A white-skinned, rapid-growing, long- keeping variety. White Pearl. A very fine, early variety, round, flat- tened at end; mild and good flavor waxy white Pr oz Pr lb $0 20 %1 00 30 i 00 30 3 00 30 2 75 3 00 2 25 2 50
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