l8 THE NEW ONION CULTURE 



I could get hold of in the shape of fertilizing 1 ma- 

 terials, such as wood ashes, leached and unleached, 

 etc; but I should not use raw manure, and none not 

 reasonably free from weed seeds, as I have already 

 stated. 



For house use, and especially to secure a supply of 

 fine bulbs for the table during midsummer, I have 

 sometimes planted a lot of onion seedlings in the new 

 strawberry patch, in the manner illustrated in Fig- 13. 



I usually plant my strawberries rather farther 

 apart than most people. I lay off the rows four feet 

 apart, and set the plants three feet apart, and for such 



Fig IS ACME HARROW 



inveterate plant-makers at Michel's Early perhaps 

 even four feet apart in the rows. This leaves plenty 

 of vacant space between the plants, which may be 

 utilized to good advantage by setting half a dozen or a 

 dozen of onion plants between each two strawberry 

 plants in the row. Of course these onion plants are 

 pulled up early, sometimes even for green onions, and 

 in most cases before the tops have entirely died down, 

 so as to make room for the strawberry runners, which 

 in the latter part of the season try to occupy the entire 

 space in the rows. But I have grown as large and 

 solid onions in this manner, and this without extra 

 fussing and with less painstaking than in the regular 

 onion patch. 



