Early Spring Vegetables 



ity the New Onion Culture should be adopted: — 

 This consists in sowing the seed in the hotbed 

 in early spring and transplanting to the open 

 ground when the weather is suitable. Set the 

 tiny plants an inch apart in the rows, thin when 

 big enough to use as green onions, removing every 

 other one leaving them standing two inches apart, 

 thin again to stand four inches apart and grow on 

 until fall. If seed of Prizetaker or Ailsa Craig 

 are used onions quite the equal of the fancy 

 Spanish onions sold in the fruit stores will be 

 produced. The soil must be more than ordinarily 

 rich ; besides the spring dressing given the garden 

 before ploughing the space selected for the onions 

 should have well-rotted manure trenched in at 

 the rate of a wheelbarrow load to every square 

 yard: in trenching lay back a sj^ade's depth of 

 soil across the end of the onion bed ; fill this space 

 with manure, trench a second row, throwing the 

 soil on top of the manure, fill the fresh trench 

 with manure and continue till the whole bed has 

 been worked over. Rake the bed until the sur- 

 face is perfectly fine and smooth and sow the 



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