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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Southern Queen and Vineless are generally in good 

 repute. (Consult Farmers' Bulletin 26, U. S. Dept. Agr. ; 

 also Price's "Sweet Potato Culture for Profit.") 



2. Alliaceous Group Onions, etc. 



ONION.' Onions may be grown from seeds or from sets. 

 If seeds are used they may be sown in the open ground 

 where the bulbs are to mature, or they may be sown in 

 greenhouses or hotbeds and the young plantlets trans- 

 planted to the rows in the 

 open ground. In sowing 

 out of doors, seeds should 

 be put in as early as pos- 

 sible, in shallow drills 

 three to three and one- 

 half feet apart, and cov- 

 ered with a half inch of 

 fine, moist earth. They 

 need to be very carefully 

 weeded at first, but if the 

 ground is clean and mel- 

 low and the rows straight 

 the wheel -hoe will be able 

 to take full charge of the 

 work early in the season. 

 It has been repeatedly 

 shown that cheaper, bet- 

 ter and earlier onions can 

 be grown by transplanting 

 the plants from green- 

 houses or hotbeds, where 

 the seeds are sown very 

 early. When the plant - 

 lets are as large as a 



lead pencil, they are set m Bunch oniong grown from geed 

 four inches apart in rows O f the Italian type. 



