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which, though their blades be cut oil', the 

 .oots remain sound, and shoot-forth with 

 great vigour early in spring 1 , furnishing 



<!>le supplies till .May, when they 



illy run to seed. From this singu- 

 lar hardness ihev niav he cultivated more 

 'r less us a winter standing' crop, with 



'age, for spring- use. 

 Cives, or chives. This is the smallest 

 of all the onion kind, rising but a few 

 inches high; but its roots are perennial, 

 and increase considerably into clusters, 

 . hich large tufts of slender awl- 

 sliaped leaves issue, which are the prin- 

 cipal part used, the roots never forming 

 any bull), at least not bigger than small 



This is a hardy plant, which me- 



iace in every garden. Its clusters 

 of leaves rise early in sprint;', and arc use- 

 ful both in salads and for culinary pur- 

 : tult of onions. The method 



ring it is, to cut the leaves off near 

 the ground, by which a fresh supply is 

 -oon produced from the bottom ; or oc- 



<'ly the plants in clusters may be 

 Clipped quite to the root in separate lit- 

 :le plants, resembling young onions, and 

 used as substitutes for them. It is easily 

 d by dividing the roots in spring, 

 and planting eight or ten of them toge- 

 iher in holes, at six inches distance ; in this 

 way, by autumn, they will multiply into 

 bunches of a large size. 



Eschalot, orscnallot. This is a species of 

 onion which is bulbous-rooted, and which 

 s greatly by ofl'-set.s, the largest 

 of which are the proper parts of the plant 

 for use. The bulbs are oblong, irregu- 

 lar, and seldom grow large ; as they gene- 

 rally increase into clusters, they do not 

 swell like roots that grow singly. From 

 the roots are produced many long, nar- 

 H>W, infirm leaves in the spring, and 

 which wither in July or August, when the 

 roots are full grown : they are then taken 

 Mp, madedr\, ami housed, when they 

 keep in good perfection till the follow ing- 

 spring. 



Canada or tree-onion. This dt 

 to be cultivated, both as a curiosity in 

 producing- the onion at the top of the 

 stalk, and for the use of the onions, es- 

 ;.eriail\ for pickling, in which t hi \ 

 ellent, and superior in flavour to the 

 common Onion. It is perennial, and propa- 

 gated by planting the bulbs in spring or 

 :iutumn. Either the. root-bulbs. <>r those 

 produced on the top of the stalk, being 

 /.anted in abed or beds of am 

 in rows a foot asunder, six indies distance 

 ii each roWjUiultv. 



Moot un leaves and strdks in the 



spring and summer, and produce thr 

 bulbs for use in July or August ; and thr 

 root-imlbs remaining furnish a produc- 

 tion of top-bulbs, annually,!!! that season ; 

 the root-bulb increasing by ofl'-si 

 hi: taken up occasionally at the time the 

 stem decays in autumn ; or once in two 

 or three years, in order to separate the 

 off-sets, and replant them when necessary. 



The leek is the third division of the ge- 

 nus, the general characters of which are 

 the same as those before described, and 

 the species and varieties are, the pornim, 

 or common leek, which may be said to 

 be an annual-biennial plant ; for although 

 the roots often survive after perfecting 

 seeds, yet the plants always attain perfec- 

 tion the same year they are sown, and the 

 year afterwards run up to stalk, and be- 

 come unfit for use. The seed-stalk of 

 this plant does not belly like that of the 

 onion. The best of the varieties of this 

 plant for general culture is the broad- 

 leaved or London leek, which attains a 

 large growth, the neck acquiring a thick 

 substance, in length from six to nine or 

 ten inches, dividing upwards into many 

 large, long, thick leaves, arranging 

 selves in somewhat of a fan-shape. There 

 are seven species indigenous in America, 

 and described by Pursh, viz: 1. A. vi- 

 m-ale, common in old fields. 2. A. fra- 

 grans, (which is A. inodorum of Botani- 

 cal Magazine 1129, and A. mutabile of 

 Michaux'sfl. Ame. 1 p. 195) found on the 

 mountains of Virginia and Carolina. 3. 

 A. striatum (which is A. ornithogaloides 

 of Halt's fl. Car. 121, and ornithogalum 

 bivalve of Lin.) native in Virgin 

 Carolina. 4. A. angulosum,found on the 

 banks of the Missouri by Lewis ar.d Nut- 

 tall. 5. A. triflorum, found on shady 

 woods arid high mountains of Pet. 

 nia. 6. A. canadense, found in fields and 

 woods from Canada to Carolina, 

 tricoccon, found in shady woods, Penn- 

 sylvania to \ irginia. 



ALLODIAL, an epithet given to an in- 

 hcritai. >:' any acknowledg- 



ment to a lord or superior, in opposition 

 !al. 



A1.I.MD1UM, or A tiF.rr, denotes 

 lands which are the absolute prop 

 their owner, wit bout being obliged to pay 

 any service or acknowledgment w ! 

 to a superior lord ; in which sense they 

 stand opposed to feudal lands, which pay 

 a fee to some superior. 



AI.I.OI'llYI.l S, in botany, a genus of 

 the Octandria Monogyu'ia clas 

 ..\ ot' whi'-:. 

 {' four le avcs of an orbicular figure. 



