CHAPTER XXV. 



THE ONION FAMILY. 



ONION. Allium cepa. 



French, ognon: German, zwiebel; Dutch, uijen; Danish, voglog; Italian, 

 cipolla; Spanish, cebolla; Portuguese, cebola. 



LEEK. Allium porrum. , 



French poireau ; German, lauch ; Dutch, prei ; Danish, porre ; Italian, 

 porro ; Spanish, puerro ; Portuguese, alho porro. 



GARLIC. Allium sativum. 



French, ail; German, knoblauch; Dutch, knoflook; Danish, hvidlog; 

 Italian, aglio; Spanish ajo; Portuguese, alho. 



CHIVES. Allium schoenoprasum. 



French ciboulette, civette; German, schittlauch; Dutch, bieslook; Italian, 

 cipollina; Spanish, cebollino. 



CIBOULE. Allium fistulosum. 



French, ciboule; German, schnitt-zwiebel ; Dutch, bieslook; Danish, 

 purlog; Italian, cipolleta; Spanish, cebolleta; Portuguese, cebolinha. 



SHALLOT. Allium ascalonicum. 



French, echalote; German, schalotte; Dutch, sjalot; Danish, skalottelog; 

 Italian, scalogno ; Spanish, chalote ; Portuguese, echalota. 



The onion is another of the great vegetables in California 

 great in the size of the tubers and in the crop, as is shown by the 

 data published in Chapter I ; great also in the east with which a 

 constant supply of fresh onions can be secured throughout the year 

 in the open air; greater still, perhaps, in the fact that the superb 

 local conditions for onion-seed growing have given California almost 

 the monpoly of the onion-seed trade of the United States, and yet 

 we have produced sometimes more seed than can be sold with profit 

 to the growers. Though the local consumption of onions, in pro- 

 portion to the population, is large, and though there is an export 

 trade in all directions, there is frequently an over-production and a 

 reaction even to scarcity, so that the market price is subject to wide 



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