The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



SWEET POTATOES 



Are far more difficult to carry through the 

 winter than the Irish potatoes. They require 

 more warmth and a dryer atmosphere, and should 

 be stored in boxes of dry sand and set on some 

 support away from the floor. The furnace 

 cellar, if not too warm is the best place for them 

 and it is well to use them freely so as to lessen the 

 loss from decay as much as possible. 



WINTER ONIONS 



Should be stored in a dry place, a little above 

 freezing. Slight frost does not injure onions, 

 but repeated freezing and thawing does, while 

 too much heat will start them to growing. An 

 upstairs room that receives sufficient heat to 

 keep it from freezing will do nicely and it is a 

 good plan to use the best onions first so that those 

 which are unfit for use towards spring will not 

 be so much of a loss; however, as these onions 

 make the very best of green onions they are by 

 no means a total loss, but the small and inferior 

 ones will do quite as well for this purpose, for it 



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