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tapering to a blunt point : this being in readiness, proceed to mark 

 out your ground into two feet wide beds, leaving a twelve inch alley 

 between each; then pull this rake along each bed from one end to 

 the other, pressing it down as you proceed, by which it will make 

 four regular drills in each, for the reception of the small onions, 

 which you are to plant by hand in these drills, at the distance above 

 mentioned, and just so deep as that you can cover the crowns, by 

 drawing a little earth over them with the hand as you proceed. 



By the same method you may plant these onions in beds of any 

 dimensions you please, either lengthwise or across the beds. 



The Allium canadense^ or tree onion, merits culture both as a 

 curiosity in producing the onions at the top of the stalk, as well as 

 for their value in domestic use, particularly for pickling, in which 

 they are excellent, and superior in flavor to the common kinds; they 

 may also be used for any other purposes that onions are. 



It is perennial, and propagated by planting the bulbs in spring or 

 autumn, either the root-bulbs, or those produced on the top of the 

 stalks ; the latter if planted in spring as directed for the other kinds 

 will produce very fine, handsome sized onions of excellent flavor. 



The root-bulbs increase greatly by offsets, and should be taken up 

 once in every two or three years, when the stems decay in autumn, 

 and replanted again to produce a supply of top-bulbs. 



GARLIC, ROCAMBOLE, AND SHALLOTS. 



Prepare some beds of good ground, four feet wide, in which to plant 

 garlic, rocambole, and shallots; of which procure some best bulbs 

 or roots ; divide the garlic and rocambole into cloves, and the shal- 

 lots into offsets, as they admit; plant them in rows, lengthwise the 

 beds, eight or nine inches asunder, by six inches distance in each 

 row, and two or three inches deep. 



They may be planted either with a dibble or in drills drawn with 

 a hoe. 



GIVES, OR CHIVES. 



Gives, a small species of onion, growing in large tufts, are useful 

 in a family in the spring, &c., as a substitute for young onions, both 

 in salads and culinary purposes; they are propagated by slipping 

 the roots, and this is a proper time to plant them ; the method is to 

 part or take off some slips from the old roots several small offsets 

 together, and plant them in beds or borders about six to eight, or 

 nine inches distance. 



In slipping or parting the above roots, observe to preserve eight, 

 ten, or more of the small bulbs together in a cluster, and in that 

 manner to plant them. 



They are to be planted with a dibble or trowel, making holes for 

 them at the distance above mentioned, putting one cluster of roots, 

 as above, in each hole, and closing the earth well about them. They 

 will soon take root, and increase very fast into large bunches, of many 

 years' duration. 



