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dredge-box. This takes less trouble, though it requires more of the powder ; and 

 the leaves should be damped, to retain what does not fall on the insects till they 

 reach it. If some are in the state of eggs and others of larvae, the application 

 may require to be repeated ; but will not fail if the hellebore is fresh ground and 

 pungent, and reaches the insects. The powder insinuates itself between the hairs 

 of the insect, and reaches the tender skin more readily than water ; it should be 

 well toasted, if damp weather, to allow of its dividing well. 



1234, in p. 569. The raspberry is well adapted for forcing, and is worthy of 

 more general cultivation in forcing-houses ; a few old stools taken up and planted 

 against the back wall of a peach-house, at the time of commencing to force, will, 

 with moderate care, furnish many dishes of fruit. H. C. O. 



1267, in p. 581, and 1342 in p. 606 In the neighbourhood of New York the 

 cherry tomato is cultivated and preserved as a sweetmeat. At first this sweet- 

 meat was supposed to be made of the winter cherry, as stated in 1267 ; but it has 

 since been found to be a small round tomato. 



1379, in p. 624. Mr. Barnes informs us that there is a late variety of cauliflower 

 in cultivation by some market-gardeners quite distinct from the early variety, 

 though it is seldom to be met with in the seed-shops. Mr. Barnes was formerly 

 in practice in some of the principal market-gardens about London ; an immense 

 advantage with reference to the management of the kitchen -garden of a private 

 gentleman. 



1462, in p. 659. Some here are in the habit of planting Strasburgh and other 

 common onions, early in spring, in the same way as they do potato onions. When 

 any flower-stem appears, they pinch out the centre, and find the roots of the common 

 onion, treated in this way, to offset and produce an aggregation of bulbs nearly, if 

 not equally, as well as the potato variety, which resembles the globe, but appears 

 to have acquired the habit of not running to seed. 



1463, in p. 660. In deep alluvial loam, the onion plants grow most luxuriantly, 

 but are more apt, especially in wet seasons, to produce what are called scullions ; 

 the foliage being strong and thick at the neck, but the root made soft and ill- 

 ripened, and will not keep. It has been found advantageous sometimes to roll or 

 tread well such land ; but in the general run of seasons here, when the climate is 

 moist, soil of a rather clayey nature is found to suit best, and to produce the foliage 

 small at the neck, and the bulb round, protuberated, and well ripened. A thin 

 crop also is more apt to produce most scullions, and it is safer to have the crop 

 rather to the thick side, as they are found to increase less in foliage and more in 

 root, and though the onions are not so large, the weight of the crop is more, and 

 keeps better. Much of the tendency to produce thick necks flows, as in turnips, 

 from not picking the roots well in saving the seed. The plants that have small 

 foliage, and handsome well swelled-out roots, are most likely to produce their like 

 again from seed, and much depends on the carefulness of the person who saves the 

 seed. Here, where great breadths of onions are annually sown, the seed imported 

 from Holland from careful agents there is allowed to give the best crops. Soil 

 that can be broken small to a fine surface requires less seed. %. Clayey ground in- 

 tended for onions should be thrown up rough in January or February to get the 

 frost, which allows of its forming a fine covering for the seed, and thus ensures a 

 better braird. On light dry soils, near the coast, the practice of sowing in autumn 

 is found to succeed best, as the onions fail in the drought of summer when spring- 

 sown. The autumn-sown ones did but live also last season, being too dry for small 



