Excerpt from The New Onion Culture: A Complete Guide in Growing Onions for Profit
My own earlier interest in onion growing was revived by the introduction, in 1889, of the Prizetaker onion, a variety of that large and very mild Spanish type which we now import in still considerable quan tities from abroad. The bulbs, in my (then) New Jersey sandy loam grew so beautiful and perfect, and of such large Size (although grown by the old method, from seed sown in open ground in spring), that I became really enthusiastic about the possibilities hidden in the crop. In my further experiments with this novelty, I stumbled In 1890, upon the method now generally known as the new onion culture.
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