roperties.

DANVERS.

Danvers Yellow.

[Illustration: Danvers Onion.]

This comparatively recent variety was obtained by selection from the
Common Yellow. It is somewhat above medium size, and inclined to
globular in its form. Average bulbs measure three inches in diameter,
and two inches and three-fourths in depth. The skin is yellowish-brown,
but becomes darker by age, and greenish-brown if long exposed to the
sun; the flesh is similar to that of the Yellow,--white, sugary,
comparatively mild, and well flavored.

The superiority of the Danvers Onion over the last named consists
principally, if not solely, in its greater productiveness. When grown
under like conditions, it yields, on the average, nearly one-fourth
more; and, on this account, the variety is generally employed for field
culture. It is, however, not so good a keeper; and, for shipping
purposes, is decidedly inferior to the Yellow,--its globular form
rendering it more liable to decay, from the heat and dampness incident
to sea voyages.

When cultivated for the market, the land is thoroughly ploughed, and
well enriched with fine decomposed manure. The surface is then harrowed,
and next raked free of stones, and lumps of earth. The seed is sown in
April, usually by machines, in rows fourteen inches apart, and
three-fourths of an inch in depth; three pounds of seed being allowed to
an acre. The crop is treated in the usual form during the summer; and
ripens the last of August, or early in September. When the tops have
entirely withered, the bulbs are raked from the drills, and spread a few
days in the sun for drying; after which they are sorted, and barrelled
for storing or the market. The yield varies from five to eight hundred
bushels per acre.

DEPTFORD. _Thomp._

Brown Deptford.

Very similar to, if not identical with, the English Strasburg. "It
sometimes exactly agrees with the description of that variety: but it
occasionally has a pale-brown skin, without any tinge of red; and, when
this is the case, its flavor is milder than that of the last named."

With the exception of its more globular form, the bulb much resembles
the Yellow Onion of this country.

EARLY SILVER NOCERA.

Early Small Silver Nocera. White Nocera. _Thomp._ Blanc Hatif de Nocera.
_Vil._

This is a very small variety of the Early Silver-skin, with a small,
occasionally roundish, but generally oblate bulb. The skin is white; but
the layers beneath are striped wit