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| Keywords: The field and garden vegetables of America (Page 142) (6002640318).jpg Y 1 1 low Onion <br> 142 ALLIACEOUS PLANTS <br> Yellow Onion <br> Silver-skin of New England <br> One of the oldest varieties and as a market onion proba- <br> bly better known and more generally cultivated in this country <br> than any other sort The true Yellow <br> Onion has a flattened form and a very small <br> neck Its size is rather above medium ” <br> measuring when well grown from three <br> inches to three inches and a half in diame- <br> ter and from two inches to two inches and <br> a half in depth Skin yellowish-brown or <br> copper-yellow ” becoming somewhat deeper <br> by age or if exposed long to the sun ; flesh white fine- <br> grained comparatively mild sugary and well flavored It <br> keeps well and is very prolific few of the plants in good <br> soils and seasons fail to produce good-sized and well-ripened <br> bulbs For the vegetable garden as well as for field culture <br> it may be considered a standard sort <br> The Danvers Onion which is but a sub-variety of the <br> common Yellow may prove somewhat more profitable for <br> extensive cultivation on account of its globular form ; but <br> neither in its flavor nor in its keeping properties can it be <br> said to possess any superiority over the last named <br> The term Silver-skin by which this onion is very <br> generally though erroneously known throughout New Eng- <br> land has created great confusion between seedsmen and <br> dealers Much perplexity might be avoided if its applica- <br> tion to the Yellow Onion were entirely abandoned The <br> genuine Silver-skin as its name implies has a skin of pure <br> silvery whiteness ; and is in other respects very dissimilar <br> to the present variety <br> When extensively cultivated for the market it should be <br> sown and subsequently treated as directed for the Danvers <br> Onion The yield per acre varies from four to six hundred <br> bushels 29062480 92326 42073 Page 142 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/29062480 1863 10 5962/bhl title 42073 Burr Fearing Biodiversity Heritage Library The field and garden vegetables of America United States Varieties Vegetable gardening Vegetables Library Congress bhl page 29062480 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/29062480 united states Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2011-08-02 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/6002640318 2015-09-10 21 02 43 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The field and garden vegetables of America Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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