Jeannine, I have learned over the last few years that trying to figure out topsetting onions is like taking a bunch of different tomato seeds, mixing them up, throwing in crossed seeds, then trying to tell the varieties apart by just the seeds. It's a mess and as you can see from the post above the named varieties can be a mess too. That's part of the fun though. From what I have read they were a lot more popular in the 1800s. Then bulbing, biennial onions came into the picture and seed companies stopped offering topsetting and potato onions. That's why today they are more of a rarity. They are also all clones of each other which causes a lot of disease and such to collect over the years.
The SSE listing for Fleener's is the listing I got my onions from. I don't think they are Fleener's unfortunately. There were two other listings a few years ago but not now. They might have been the real Fleener's but I do not know. Zeedman might. I know he has been searching for them longer than I.
-Zach
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-Zach
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