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latter cafe, it is fure to be deftroyed by 

 maggots. Amongft the beft crops I ever 

 faw, were fown about the middle of Janu- 

 ary. The middle of February of firft of 

 March, however, feems to be a more eli- 

 gible time, as the weather is then gene- 

 rally more favourable for fowing final! 



feeds. 



I have alfo both raifed, and frequently 



feen, excellent crops of Onions that were 

 fown about the firft of Auguft ; in which 

 cafe, about the firft of -May following, 

 when they begin to fhoot, their hearts 

 ihould all be picked out to prevent them 

 from running to feed. This, in fad, feems 

 to be the fureft way of obtaining a crop 

 on light land 3 but in wet land it is not 

 advifable. 



Onions ftiould be fown either on four-' 

 foot beds, or in drills a foot afunder, and 

 (hould be thinned out to five or fix inches 

 fquare in the one cafe, and three apart in 

 the row in the other. The kind beft a- 

 dapted to this climate is the Strafburgh, 

 for although the Portugal, &c. will grow 

 freely enough, it feldom ripens well, and 

 confequently does not keep. 



A a 3 Onions 



