ONLY WAY 



As Boon M the young plant* show 

 themselves, the top-Mill nhould be 

 dressed with a duoting of toot and 

 nitrate of soda, and the onion* 

 -li..uM In- thinned out to alx>ut 



apart, till' lliii'I-.illiM Ix'lliL' 



ii-t !ul for naiads. At the end f the 

 -ii in HUT the ripened onions should 

 l>i- lilted from the ground and hung 

 in a shed, or spread on a dry floor. 

 Care must he taken not to allow 

 damp to reach them. Succoasional 

 i may be made at any time 

 up till Aug. in order to provide for 

 fresh winter crops. 



of the onions grown outside the 

 British Isles, the Tripoli, Madeira, 

 and Brittany varieties are the moet 

 popular in Britain. They are more 

 delicate in flavour and leas coarse 

 of texture than the better known 

 Spanish onion. The usual method 

 of propagating onions is by seed 

 from the top growth of bulbs which 

 are left in the ground to ripen, and 

 of which 10 Ib. to the acre should 

 result in a crop of 35-40 tons. 



Only Way, THE. Romantic 

 drama founded by Freeman Wills 

 and Frederick Langbridge on 

 Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities 

 (q.v.). Produced Feb. 16, 1899, at 

 the Lyceum Theatre, London, it 

 had a run of 167 continuous per- 

 formances. The play laid the foun- 

 dation of Martin Harvey's success 

 as a popular romantic actor. See 

 Harvey, Sir John Martin. 



Onomacritus (c. 520-485 B.C.). 

 Athenian mystic and poet. He 

 lived in the time of Peisistratus 

 and his sons, and is said to have 

 collected and arranged the prophe- 

 cies of Musaeus. Having been de- 

 tected introducing additions of his 

 own, he was banished. Becoming 

 reconciled to the Peisistratidae, 

 who had been driven out of Athens, 

 he accompanied them to Susa, and 

 by his prophecies of success per- 

 suaded Xerxes to attack Greece 

 and restore the Peisistratidae. 



Onomatopoeia (Gr. onoma, 

 name ; poiein, to make). Philo- 

 logical term for the formation of 

 words in imitation of external 

 sounds, whether uttered by living 

 creatures or produced by inanimate 

 objects. Instances are bang, bow- 

 wow, buzz, cuckoo, frou-frou, 

 mew, puff, quack, whir, in which 

 the sound is an echo to the sense 

 (hence the term echoism). Older 

 etymologists regarded this method 

 as one of the chief factors in word- 

 formation in the earliest stages of 

 a language, but it is now generally 

 recognized that its influence can 

 only have been of limited extent. 

 See Philology ; Phonetics. 



Onomichi. Town of Japan, in 

 Honshu. It is a shipping centre 

 on the coast of the Inland Sea, 191 

 m. by rly. from Shimonoseki mi 



4th Earl of Onslow, 

 British politician 



5647 



the route to Kobe. The town lie* 

 i narrow coa*t strip, backed 



. !. lull opposite the inland of 

 Mukai. win I, piotectstheharUur. 

 There are 4s Buddhist temple*, of 

 i lie i incut i* Konko-ji. Mat- 

 ting*, both plain and figured, and 

 *ak6 are the chief article* of trade. 

 Steamer* connect the town with 

 Tadotnu, on Shikoku. Pop. 30,400. 

 Onslow. Village <>f Surrey, Kng- 

 land. NVarCuildfiinl, it was part of 

 the estate of the carl of Onslow, 

 having been once included in a 

 chase made by Henry II. A garden 

 fity. >>egun here in lO-.'O. covers 

 about a sq. m., and is supplied 

 with gas and water from Guildford. 

 Onslow, EARL OF. British title 

 borne since 1801 by the family of 

 Onslow. This goes back tun certain 

 r, lord of 

 On des 1 owe, 

 Shropshire. Hi 

 descendant, 

 Richard Onslow 

 (1528-71), was 

 Speaker of the 

 House of Com- 

 mons in Eliza- 

 beth's time. A 

 later Richard 

 (1601-64) was a 

 La f ittie supporter of the 



Commonwealth. He was knighted, 

 served in the Long and Protecto- 

 rate Parliaments and in the army, 

 and sat in the House of Lords 

 called by Cromwell. His son, Sir 

 Arthur (1621-88), became a baro- 

 net, and the latter's son, Sir 

 Richard (1654-1717), was chosen 

 Speaker, as was his nephew, 

 Arthur (1691-1768), who filled 

 that position from 1728-61. Sir 

 Richard was made Baron Onslow 

 in 1716, and the 4th baron, an 

 ollieial of the royal household, was 

 made earl of Onslow in 1801. 

 William, the 4th earl (1853-1911), 

 was a Conservative politician. 

 He held a succession of minor 

 offices before and after being gov- 

 ernor-general of New Zealand, 1889 

 -92. From 1903-5 he was pre- 

 sident of the board of agriculture, 

 and from 1905-10 deputy-speaker 

 of the House of Lords. The earl's 

 seat is Clandon Park, Guildford, 

 and his eldest son is called Viscount 

 Cranley. Richard, the 5th earl, 

 was parliamentary secretary fb the 

 ministry of health 1921-3, and 

 under-secretary for war from Nov. 

 1924. 



Onslow Bay. Broad bay on the 

 S.E. coast of North Carolina, U.S.A. 

 It extends W. from Cape Lookout, 

 and receives the New, White Oak, 

 Newport, and other rivers. 



On take. Mt. peak in the Japan- 

 ese Alps. The most frequented 

 sacred mountain after Fujiyama, 

 its alt. is 1 1,000 ft,, and the summit 



ONTARIO 



i* marked by a Shinto shrine dating 

 from 1385. Every summer crowd* 

 <>f pilgrim* make the aacent, which, 

 like that of Fuji, is divided into 10 

 stage*. A dulphur crater and moun- 

 tain tarn* occur near the summit, 

 which resemble* that of Fuji in 



Ontario. Smallest and moct 

 easterly of the five Great Lakes of 

 N. America. It* length is 193 m., 

 width 53 m. at the broadest part, 

 area 7,260 sq. m., maximum depth 

 738 ft, and average depth 412 

 ft. With a surface 246 ft above 

 sea level, it occupies a shallow 

 depression in the earth's crust It 

 is fed by the Niagara river from 

 Lake Erie, and is known at its 

 N.E. outlet to the St Lawrence as 

 the Lake of a Thousand Isles. The 

 chief feedeis are the Genesee, 

 Oswego, Black, and Trent rivers. 

 .' i important section of the St 

 l.i vrence and Great Lakes navi- 

 . the lake is connected with 

 Lake Krie by the Welland Canal, 

 with tl;e Ottawa river by the Ri- 

 anal, and with the New York 

 State barce canal system In t!:e 

 Oswego Canai; shore ice in'.vfcrcj 

 with navigation in t':e wiiitor. 

 . Called Lake St. lx* i< I y Chsm- 

 plain, the lake wa< l.-i . i t<> the 

 French settlers in t'a -.!. .1 

 Frontenac.SeeCanad i;i. : I -.1' M, 

 Ontario. Prov. of Ca . -. U, the 

 most populous of the nine. Also 

 called Upper Cana;h, its area is 

 407,262 sq. m., of 

 which 41,382 are 

 covered with 

 water, and its 

 population in 

 l!'-'l after the 

 prov. was en- 

 larged reached 

 the total of 

 2.!i'2.00a The 

 province consists 

 of two parts, an older, smaller, and 

 more settled one, the Lakes Penin- 

 sula, which is something like a tri- 

 angle between Lake Huron, the 

 Ottawa river, and, on the third 

 side, Lakes Erie and Ontario, and 

 a newer part to the N. A section of 

 this, the dist. called Patricia, was 

 only added to Ontario in 1912. 

 Toronto is the provincial capital 



The climate is varied, as may be 

 expected in a district 1,075 m. from 

 N. to S., and stretching from 

 Detroit on the U.S. border to the 

 shores of Hudson Bay. In the S. 

 it is mild in winter, and not too hot 

 in summer, owing to the lakes ; in 

 the N. it reaches a region of intense 

 cold. It includes parts of four of 

 the Great Lakes, and there are 

 many sheets of water in the N. 

 part The prov. is largely flat, 

 although the Lauren tian Highlands 

 run through it The rivers mostly 



Ontario arms 



