Rousham Park Hero

Once an exhibition favourite, this flat, yellow-skinned variety can be spring or autumn sown. Bred at Rousham Park, near Bicester, Oxfordshire, in the 19th century by the head gardener Mr Wingrove, and William Woods. It was grown in the vegetable garden there until the 1930s. Described in RA Taylor Seeds for All Gardens and Allotments (1921) as a “remarkably handsome onion of immense size".