GROWING ONIONS FROM SETS 



R. BRODIE, WESTMOUNT, QUE. 



IT is only in small family gardens that 

 onions are grown from Dutch sets. 

 Hundreds of acres near Montreal are grown 

 from seed, some farmers having 12 acres 

 each. They are generally grown on land that 

 has been very heavily manured and planted 

 the previous year to cabbage or cauliflower. 

 Sow about five pounds of seed to the acre, 

 in rows one foot apart. Cultivate often and 

 keep the weeds down or they will soon down 

 the onions. 



With good soil, good seed and clean culti- 

 vation, 600 bushels to the acre should be the 

 yield. This, however, is only in case there 

 is no onion maggot, for which as yet no 

 practical preventive has been found. The 

 best remedy, perhaps, is paris green and 

 plaster of paris (gypsum), two pounds of 

 paris green to a barrel of plaster. Sown 



on a row of onions where the plants are 

 afflicted it prevents the maggot from spread- 

 ing over the field. 



The most profitable varieties to grow are : 

 for the red onion, the Early and Large Red 

 Wethersfield ; the Red Globe Danvers is 

 much liked on some soils, especially the black 

 sandy loam. For yellow onions, the Globe 

 Danvers and Flat Danvers are the best ; the 

 Giant Prizetaker is good for amateur grow- 

 ers. Start the seed in the hot beds, trans- 

 planting in May. For commercial pur- 

 poses it comes into competition with the im- 

 ported Spanish onion., and we can never ob 

 tain the bright straw color of the imported 

 varieties. In white varieties the White 

 Southport and Prize Winner can be grown, 

 starting them in hotbeds. Avoid wet soil 

 or the onions will grow to thick necks. 



A Promising Industry 



PROF. H. L. HUTT, ONT. AGRI. CQLLEGE, 

 GUELPH. 



1"> HE growing of vegetables for the early 

 markets, I believe, is one of the 

 branches of market gardening which will 

 certainly increase very much within the next 

 few vears. From the fact that manv of the 



Preparing Roses for Winter, No. 3. 



This illustration shows the box with the cover nailed securely on, 

 and the bushes ready for their winter's sleep. Amateur rose growers 

 will do well to adopt this method. 



peach growers in Essex district have been 

 forced to turn to something else since thev 

 have lost their peach orchards, this forcing 

 of early vegetables has received a great deal 

 of attention in the Leamington district. 

 Some of the growers there this year have 

 told me thev have found their earlv 



crops of tomatoes, cabbage and cucumbers 

 even more profitable than peaches. There 

 is a growing demand for these early crops ; 

 in fact, some of the growers stated that they 

 could not begin to meet the demand this 

 year. 



In the past we have been importing a 

 large quantity of early vegetables from the 

 southern states, and there is no reason 

 whatever why we should not produce a large 

 quantity, if not the greater part of these, in 

 our own country. Some of the southern 

 sections of the province, like the Niagara 

 and Essex districts, are particularly adapted 

 to growing such crops, as they have a suit- 

 able soil and their winters are not so severe 

 that the expense of heating is excessive. 



We are apt to judge strangers whom we 

 meet on the street by their personal appear- 

 ance. Their outward garments, if you 

 please, convey to us almost insensibly their 

 qualities of mind and heart. — (P. G. Keyes, 

 Ottawa, Ont. 



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