372 THE KITCHEN GARDENER. [B. 3. 



SECTION XVIL 

 ONIONS. 



THIS is a valuable vegetable, as moft 

 people are fond of it. It requires a 

 ftrong rich loam to produce it in perfec- 

 tion ; but in wet feafons, we frequently 

 fee good crops raifed in light land. 



In i all cafes, the land fhould be well 

 enriched with manure^ which, however, 

 fhould not be applied at the time of fow- 

 ing \ .the bell method being either to fal- 

 low or take a light crop immediately be- 

 fore, when the manure fhould be applied ^ 

 which may be any of the kinds beft adapt- 

 ed to the nature of the foil. If this is not 

 the cafe, and if manure is to be applied at 

 the time of fowing, compoft is to be pre- 

 ferred to fimples. 



A fixed feafon for fowing can hardly be 

 determined, as in all cafes we frequently 

 fee the crop blafted in Summer, either 

 with too much wet or drought, in which 



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