SETTING THE PLANTS 



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When the plants are thus prepared for setting and 

 bunched off, let a boy take a basketful of them and 

 drop them in bunches just ahead of the planters. Of 

 course, the work should be begun just as soon as the 

 ground can be got in proper shape. The soil must 

 be moist and crumbly, but not wet or sticky. Begin 



Fig 27 — PLANT SET RIGHT DEPTH 



with the plants that were started first, or are largest, 

 and carry the job to completion as speedily as possible. 

 The question is often asked how deep onion plants 

 should be set. An onion plant will live and make a 

 bulb whether you set it a half inch or three inches 

 deep. But we want the bulb to grow pretty well out 

 of the ground. This seems to be the nature of the 

 onion plant. In order to show this in a theoretical 



