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between April and the middle of June, in drillG 

 six inches apart, and put the seed-very thick along 

 the drills. Let all the plants stand, and they will 

 get to be about as big round as the top of your 

 little finger. Then the leaves will get yellow, and 

 -when that is the case, pull up the onions and lay 

 them on a board, till the sun have withered up the 

 leaves. Then take these diminutive onions, put 

 them in a bag, and hang them up in a dry place 

 till spring. As soon as the frost is gone, and the 

 ground dry, plant out these onions in good and 

 fine ground, in rows a foot apart. Make, not drills^ 

 but little marks along the ground ; and put the 

 onions at six or eight inches apart. Do not cover 

 them with the earth ; but just firess them down 

 upon the mark with your thumb and forefinger. 

 The ground ought to be trodden and slightly raked 

 again before you make the marks, for no earth 

 should rise uft about the plants. Proceed after 

 this as with sown onions ; only observe, that, 

 if any shoukl be running up. to seed, you must 

 twist down me neck as soon as you perceive it. 

 But, observe this : the shorter the time that these 

 onions have been in the ground the year before, 

 the less likely will they be to run to seed. Pre- 

 serving onions is an easy matter Frost never 

 hurts them, unless you move them during the time 

 that they are frozen. Any dry, airy place will 

 therefore do. They should not be kept in a. warm 

 place ; for they will heat and grow. The neatest 

 way is to tie them up in ropes ; that is to say, to 

 tie them round sticks, or straight straw, with 

 matting (See Endive). For seed, pick out the 

 finest onions, and plant them out in rich land, in 

 the spring. To grow this seed upon a large scale 



