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Danvers varieties were sown between them. At 

 that warm season it was but a few days before 

 the little onions were pricking through the soil 

 thick as hair. I had ordered plenty of seed 

 sown, knowing that the plants would have to 

 run the gauntlet of the winter frosts. Indeed, 

 the whole thing was an experiment, for I never 

 knew of its being done in our latitude, and could 

 find no instruction in the books on the subject. 

 Nevertheless, the presumptuous onions grew 

 sturdily on, without the countenance of any 

 " authority " or known precedent, and in winter 

 they varied in height from six inches to one 

 foot. The same covering put over the straw- 

 berry-bed also protected them, and in spring 

 they nearly all came out as bright as if they had 

 only had a good nap, and were just wakened. 

 Then a spirit of emulation seemed to spring up 

 between them and the strawberry vines. Side 

 by side, " neck and neck," they went forward 



