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Mr. C. N. Heming, Davis Town — The October rains washed most of 

 the seeds away, but a few grew and produced fairly large onions. 



Reports. 

 Irom Bulletin, Jamaica, April, 1895, 



Mrs. Grunter, Kingston. — Seeds were planted in April. The weather 

 was very dry and they did not do well. 



Revd. A. A, Hedmann, Clifton, St Andrew. — Although the greatest 

 care was taken in ploughing, manuring and drilling the land, and the 

 young plants were well protected from destructive grubs, the result has 

 not been at all satisfactory. The onions matured very quickly but the 

 return was scarcely worth the trouble of reaping, the largest onion 

 being not more than f of an inch in diameter. 



Mr. J. Stephens, Radnor, St. Thomas. — The Indian onion seed from 

 Botanic Gardens, Saharanpur gave a very useful crop of small onions of 

 very good quality. The seed heads gave sets with me (instead of ripe 

 seeds ) These sets on being planted increased well ; on the whole the 

 onion is a useful family onion. 



Mr. W. A. Sabonadiere, Hagley Gap, St. Thomas. — The onion seed 

 germinated very well. It was sown in December but owing to absence 

 from home the onions were not transplanted till the end of February. 

 From March to May onions were gathered fit for use. Many were very 

 small but every one made a bulb, the largest may have weighed 4 ozs. 



Mr C. Stewart, Bath, St, Thomas* — I planted the onion seed which 

 I received last year. They grew well. I transplanted them, but the 

 heavy rains in October destroyed the whole bed. 



Revd. D. W". Bland, Hagley Gap, St. Thomas — Considering that the 

 soil, in which the onion seed was planted, was not as wall prepared as 

 it ought to have been, I think that I have been very successful with it, 

 obtaining bulbs averaging 8 ins. in circumference, with 2 ins. of depth. 



The onion is mild and delicate in flavour, and is a good keeper. 



Mr. Clare, Hagley Gap, St. Thomas. — I am sorry to inform you that 

 the onion seeds did not prove a success ; as soon as they grew to about 

 6 in. high, grubs destroyed most of them. 



Mr. C. H. Levy, Serge Island, St. Thomas. — Two beds were prepared 

 twelve feet in length bj?^ four feet wide, on new ground ; with a moder- 

 ate amount of well rotted stable manure forked in, drills drawn two 

 and a half inches deep allowing nine inches between the rows. 



The seed was sown in the beginning of February and covered 

 with fine soil, and watered daily, weather being very dry at the time. 



The young plants came up in about five days but grew very slowly 

 for the first two weeks. In fact you could hardly discern if they made 

 any growth at all. 



When the plants were six inches high, they were thinned out three 

 inches apart and transplanted instead of being thrown away as an ex- 

 periment to see what they would do. 



As soon as the bulbing commenced it was found necessary to mould 

 them as the sun scorched the outside skin, owing to the constant 

 watering the soil was washed away. They were watered daily, and 

 with very weak liquid manure in addition twice a week until commenc- 

 ing to ripen, then withheld altogether. The crop was taken up early 

 in May and weighed in all thirty pounds. The plants that were trans- 

 planted did not succeed anything worth mentioning, not producing one 



