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of earfcli. How am I to grow my Onions ? " When Celery is well grown, we find 

 the row of plants supported by a sloping ridge of earth, and their roots deeply 

 buried in the moist manure that had been carefully placed in trenches for their' 

 support. Borrow this idea, for the Celery is not half-aquatic, like the Onion, but- 

 a genuine ditch plant, growing freely in stagnant water. In preparing land for 

 Onions, begin by heavy layers of manure ; and in order to get depth, lay one-half 

 of the land on the top of the other half, and you will require less seed to crop 

 your land, which will have twice the weight of large Onions on the deep soil that 

 you would have had on the shallow. By making the bed one year where the 

 alley was the year before, you will be able to use rough manure for the bottom 

 layer, and make your Onion beds with very little expense. No one should ever 

 trust to watering Onions ; put in plenty of rich wet manure in March or earlier, 

 and bid the sun shine fervently on both sides of your Onion bed, as well as on the 

 top. If ever the sewage of London and other large towns is to be turned to per- 

 manent profit, it will not be by growing rank grass, but Onions. — A. Foesyth, 

 SaJfonl. 



RED HAWTHORNDEN APPLE. 



VALUABLE kitchen Apple, remarkable for its size and earliness, since it 

 comes into use at the end of August and the beginning of September, and 

 ^^2y as will be seen from the annexed figure, taken from the Gardener''s 

 X Yeai'-IJook, is of large size. The tree is described as an excellent grower 

 as a standard or espalier, but not suitable for forming into a pyramid. Dr. Hogg 

 describes it as having the fruit large and oblate, with four very obtuse angles on 

 the sides, the crown being flat, with only a slight depression in which the eye 

 is placed. The skin is smooth, greenish-yellow, with a red blush next the sun. 



