252 CALIFORNIA VEGETABLES 



Some Californians coming from less favored countries are sur- 

 prised to find their garlic bulbs flowering freely and wonder if the 

 bulb is valueless after that as in the case of onions going to seed. 

 Apprehension is unnecessary. The garlic is a true perennial and 

 will keep on making bulblets while the onion is short lived and must 

 come again from the seed more quickly. 



CHIVES. 



This is a small plant, whose leaves have the onion flavor desired, 

 in cookery. They are grown from the small bulbs, and from thick 

 clumps or an edging for permanent garden beds. The leaves are. 

 shorn off whenever desired. 



CIBOULE. 



Another plant used like chives, but of taller growth, is the 

 Welch onion, or ciboule. It makes no bulb, but seeds freely, and 

 the plant develops rapidly to cutting condition. The cultivation is 

 the same as of onions grown from seed. 



SHALLOT. i 



Both the bulbs and leaves of this plant are used to give the 

 onion flavor in cookery. Propagation is the same as that of chives, 

 by means of the small bulbs, and the culture is the same as of onions 

 grown from sets. 



