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 ONION. 



OIGNON. Allium cepa } etc. etc: 



VARIETIES. 



White Portugal. 

 Silver Skinned. 

 Deptford Red. 



Yellow Dutch. 

 Strasburgh, or Flanders. 

 Madeira, (imported.) 



OF the several varieties of Onions, the Yellow or Silver 

 Skinned, and Deptford Red, are the best for a general crop. 

 The bulbs are handsome, of firm growth,, and keep wel!< 

 through the Winter. The white Portugal are handsome for 

 the table, very suitable for pickling ; also to pull while 

 young : and generally prove a very profitable crop. 



Previous to sowing Onion seed for a general crop, the 

 ground should be well prepared by digging in some of the 

 oldest and strongest manure that can be got. The earlier 

 this be done in the Spring, the better ; and the planting 

 should not be delayed longer than the middle of April. The 

 seed may be sown moderately thick in drills one inch 

 deep, and twelve inches apart 



Those who cultivate Onions for the sake of their bulbs,, 

 may use at the rate of four or five pounds of seed per acre. 



As market gardeners, in the vicinity of large cities, 

 find it most profitable to pull a great proportion of their 

 Onions while young, they generally require at the rate of 

 from eight to ten pounds of seed to an acre of land. 



When the plants are up strong, they should be hoed. 

 Those beds that are to stand for ripening, should be thinned 

 out while young, to the distance of two or three inches from 

 each other ; if a few should be required for use after this r 

 those can be taken which incline more to tops than roots, 

 and if the beds be frequently looked over, and the small and; 

 stalky plants taken away where they stand thickest, the 

 remaining bulbs will grow to a larger size/ The plants 

 should be hoed at least three times in the early part of their 

 growth ; but if the season prove damp, and weeds vegetate 

 luxuriantly, they must be removed by the hand, because,, 

 after the Onions have begun to bulb, it would be improper, 

 to stir them with a hoe, 



