~ ONION SEED: NORMAL BULB ONIONS ~. Many people grow onions from seed as it is so much cheaper than from sets, and the range of varieties available is better. Onions won't germinate in cold soil, and need quite a long time to make a bulb, so there are three times to sow onions from seed: ONION SEED: NORMAL BULB ONIONS ~. Many people grow onions from seed as it is so much cheaper than from sets, and the range of varieties available is better. Onions won't germinate in cold soil, and need quite a long time to make a bulb, so there are three times to sow onions from seed:
Scientifically, the term buffalo is incorrect for the North American species; its proper Latin name is Bison bison. However, common usage has made the term buffalo an acceptable synonym for the American bison. (from The American Buffalo in Transition, by J. Albert Rorabacher.).
Explore the Time Line of the American Bison created by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Bison are part of the family Bovidae, to which Asian buffalo, African buffalo and domestic cattle and goats belong. Because American bison resembled in some ways old world buffalo (Asian and African buffalo), early explorers to North America began to call them buffalo.