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18. What are "scallious" onion sets? 



19. What are the methods of keeping onions over winter? 



20. What are the advantages of planting onion sets? . 



21. How are they cultivated and gathered? 



22. Discuss the transplanting of onions. 



23. Name two varieties grown from seed, two for sets, two for 

 transplanting. 



24. What are "shallots?" "Egyptian onions?" "Top onions?" 



25. How is onion seed obtained? 



26. What are leeks, garlic, chives, and how are they cultivated 

 and propagated? 



27. How is rhubarb propagated? 



28. What cultivation does rhubarb need? 



29. What is the method used for forcing rhubarb? 



30. How are beets propagated and cultivated? 



31. Describe a beet seed. 



32. How should they be harvested and stored over winter? 



33. How does scab affect beets, and what precautions should be 

 taken against it? 



34. What are stock beets? Sugar beets? Leaf beets? 



35. What is spinach, and how cultivated? 



36. Of what countries is cabbage native, and into what three 

 groups is it divided? 



37. What vegetables have sprung from the original species of 

 cabbage? 



38. What soil is best for growing cabbages? 



39. How should cabbage crops be manured? 



40. Discuss cabbage raising for early crops. 



41. How are the plants set out and cultivated? 



42. What soil is best for late cabbage crops? 



43. What are the advantages and disadvantages of growing 

 cabbages for late crops? 



44. When are cabbages transplanted, and how are they set out? 



45. How are cabbages sown in the hill cultivated? 



46. How are cabbages harvested? 



47. What are the methods of storing cabbage? 



48. How is cabbage seed obtained? 



49. Name two desirable early varieties and two late varieties. 



50. What diseases and insects affect cabbage? 



