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frequently , and the ground kept loose around them. In dig- 

 ging them for use, care should be taken to gather them out 

 clean, as the least particle left will grow the year following, 

 and encumber the ground, without producing a crop worth 

 standing. 



LEEK. 

 POIRREAU. Allium porrum. 



VARIETIES. 



Scotch, or Flag. I Large London 



THIS is a wholesome and useful herb, and is so hardy as 

 to endure the extremes of heat and cold without injury. The 

 seed may be sown in March, or early in April, in a bed of 

 rich earth, in drills about an inch deep, and a sufficient dis 

 cance apart to admit of a small hoe being worked between 

 the rows, allowing one ounce of seed for every three thou- 

 sand plants that may be required. 



If the ground be kept loose and clean around the plants, 

 they will be fit to transplant in June, or early in July, and 

 should be set out in good ground, in rows twelve inches 

 asunder, and the plants five or six inches apart in the rows. 

 They will grow well in a warm border, which at this season 

 is useless for many kinds of vegetables. After the plants have 

 taken root, they should be frequently hoed, and kept free 

 from weeds. 



Those who wish to have Leeks blanched, may plant them 

 in trenches three or four inches deep, and as the plants in- 

 crease in growth, the earth should be drawn by a hoe into 

 the trenches. 





