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deserve more attention than has been gene- 

 rally given to them. The manner in which 

 they produce their progeny proclaims the 

 wisdom of their Maker in a degree not less 

 wonderful to the curious, than mysterious to 

 the uninformed. Nor is the manner in which 

 bulbs are multiplied less beautifully diver- 

 sified than that by which oviparous plants 

 are produced. 



The eschalot, being a native of a warmer 

 country than England, requires more atten- 

 tion than our indigenous plants, for, if it is 

 suffered to remain too long in the cold earth, 

 it decays altogether. The proper time for 

 taking up will be observed by the withering 

 of the leaves, which tells us that the occult 

 treasures are matured. 



LEEK.-PORRUM. 



This branch of the onion family was called 

 by the Greeks Upccaov, in Latin, Porrum. 



The Hortus Kewensis states, that the 

 broad-leaved leek is a native of Switzerland, 

 and that it was first cultivated in this country 



