Wilsons 17th Annual Price List And Catalogue

Author : Samuel Wilson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781397258007
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Wilson's 17th Annual Price List and Catalogue written by Samuel Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wilson's 17th Annual Price List and Catalogue: Fresh and Reliable Garden, Field and Flower Seeds; Season 1893 Within the last few years great improvements have been made in onions, especiall in the Giant Italian varieties. Heretofore the Mammoth Silver King, Mammoth Pompeii, Giant Red' Rocca, etc., have een our heaviest and most productive varies ties of onions, and are still valuable and reliable kinds to raise for a main crop, as fine, large specimens can be grown from the black seed the first year, thus doing away, to a great extent, with the plantin of small bulbs or sets. N ot only can this be done in the South, but also in the Middle, Western and Northwestern States; but 0 all the gigantic mammoth onions that have ever been introduced into the United States from Italy and other European countries, none can equal Wilson's Mammoth Prize Taker, not only for heavy weight and gigantic dimensions, but also for their beautiful shape and handsome a pearance. The above illustration fails to portray the immense size of this splendid onion, as the pages of our. Catalogue won (1 not admit of the full natural size of our largest specimens. It would seem almost incredible that onions weighing from four to six pounds could be raised from the black seed the first year, et we have the authentic and most reliable accounts of such being the case. The followin testimonials can be depended upon as hein strictly reliable, and we print them} here tooshow our customers the great value of t is immense, magnificent and highly valuab e onion. In order to further their introduction and to encourage our customers to try their hand and skill in raising Mammoth prize-taker Onions, we offer the followmg pre miums named below. Wilson's Mammoth prize-taker Onion is an immense round, globe-shaped onion, skin a clean bright straw color, flesh snow-yvhite, firm, and has a remarkably mild, pleasant flavor. Their keeping qualities are superior to any of the large varieties, and owmg to their attractive appearance are always in great demand at. High prices. From 700 to bushels of these magnificent onions could easily be own on one acre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.