of the Garlic than the Onion. This is an ufual plant in our 

 gardens ; that we have met in no one. The variety a. is deemed 

 biennial ; our prefent one is certainly perennial. The following 

 account of it is taken from Nicholson's Britifh Encyclopaedia, 

 head Allium, under which it erroneoufly {lands for the 

 canadenfe^ being called the Canada or Tree-Onion. " This," 

 it is there faid, " deferves to be cultivated, both as a curiofity 

 in producing the onion at the top of the ftalk, and for the ufe 

 of the onions, efpecially for pickling, in which they are excellent 

 and fuperior in flavour to the common onion. It is perennial 

 and propagated by planting the bulbs in fpring and autumn. 

 Either the root-bulbs, or thofe produced on the top of the ftalk, 

 being planted in a bed or beds of any good earth, in rows a foot 

 afunder, fix inches diftance in each row, and two or three inches 

 deep; they fhoot up leaves and ftalks in the fpring and fummer, 

 and produce the bulbs for ufe in July and Auguft; and the 

 root-bulbs remaining, furaifh a production of top-bulbs annually 

 in that feafon ; the root-bulb increafing by offsets, may be taken 

 up occafionally at the time the flem decays in autumn ; or once 

 in two or three years, in order to feparate the offsets and plant 



them when neceffary." This is all we know of the hiftory of 



our prefent fubjeft, the drawing of which was made from a plant 

 in Mr. Haworth's garden, where it was fuppofed to be the 

 canadenfe. G. 





