226 How to Make the Garden Pay. 



Extra Early Red. 



I have discovered still another method for growing onions, 

 both for early and late use, and I consider it of the greatest value. 

 I am sure it is by far the safest and best way of raising mammoth 

 bulbs for exhibition purposes, and it has other important 

 advantages besides. 



A NOVEL METHOD. In February, March or April, start 

 plants by sowing seed thickly in a well-prepared cold frame, and 



as soon as the open ground can be 

 worked, prepare it in the same thor- 

 ough way as directed for bunch and 

 seed onions, using the best of manure 

 without stint. Mark out the patch 

 with a hand- marker at the usual 

 distance, and set the young plants 



3 inches apart in the row, or even 



4 inches for the large foreign sorts 

 which succeed admirably under this 

 treatment. The part intended for 

 early use as "bunch" onions need 

 not be planted further than 2 inches 



apart. Every other one may then be pulled up and used in an 

 early stage of growth, and the remaining ones be left to come to 

 maturity. 



I recommend this method with fullest confidence as a most 

 excellent one, and I believe that even the market gardener (and per- 

 haps the farm gardener also) may 

 find points of merit in it which 

 will recommend it to him for trial. 

 It reduces the expense for seed to 

 a minimum ; and while requiring 

 considerable labor in setting the 

 plants (although youngsters might 

 be employed for this purpose to 

 advantage, and with a saving in 

 wages), it dispenses with most of 

 the tedious and delicate hand- 

 weeding. This work can be done 

 very conveniently by means of 

 wheel-hoe and hand hoe alone. 

 My new method also makes the 

 crop uniform, and by lengthening 

 the growing season of the fra- 

 grant bulb, adds to its individual size, and to the aggregate yield. 



I practice this novel method myself am not merely preach- 

 ing it. Under this season's most unfavorable circumstances my 

 Prize-taker onions, grown in this way, yielded at the rate of 

 considerably above 1000 bushels per acre. 



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