. Vegetable, grass and flower seeds : spring and summer of 1899. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. ROSS brothers' annual catalogue. 7 i ohg keeping .. AUSTRALIAN BROWN ONION. Claimed by the Introducers to be The Most Valuable Variety Introduced in a Generation, . They describe it as follows : "The Australian Brown Onion is of medium size", wonderfully hard and solid, and most attractive for market, both as to form and appearance. The illustration was engraved from
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. Vegetable, grass and flower seeds : spring and summer of 1899. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. ROSS brothers' annual catalogue. 7 i ohg keeping .. AUSTRALIAN BROWN ONION. Claimed by the Introducers to be The Most Valuable Variety Introduced in a Generation, . They describe it as follows : "The Australian Brown Onion is of medium size", wonderfully hard and solid, and most attractive for market, both as to form and appearance. The illustration was engraved from a photograph. They are extremely early in ripening and never make any stiff necks or scallions. Every seed seems to pro- duce a good-sized onion, and the bulb begins to form very quicklv—when the plant is not over three inches high. Planted wi'h the Red VWthersnVld, it proved to be nearly four weeks earlier and ripened off more uniformly. It has the reputation of keeping indefinitely, and we think from its firmness and hardiness that it will keep in good condition longer than any other onion known. The color of the skin is a clear amber-brown. So widely contrasted from a-iy other onion is this color that it will be noticed on the market, and when once bought, pur- chasers will be most likely to return and call again for '-those beautiful brown onions." Pkt. ioc, 1-2 oz. 14c, oz. 20c, 2 oz. 30c, 1-4 lb 50c, lb. i-75- The introducers calling our attention to a sample letter say that "'we have received the strongest testimony from different sections as to the great value for market of the Australian Brown Onion. It has been tested so gene ally, th it although we have space for but for one sample report, we are sure of a large de- mand again this season from the thousands who tried it on our recommendation. Unlike other foreign varieties, this is the best keeper of all onions, and being extra early it is a sure cropper even in the far north." Mr. Herman Blubber, A