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apart. Good tillage between the rows. The seed will 

 be n|)e in July, and then the stalks should be cut off, 

 and when quite dry, the seed threshed out, and put by 

 for use. 



ONION. 



Sow in the fall or early in the spring-. Let the ground 

 be rich, but not from fresh dung. Make the ground very 

 fine ; make the rows a foot apart, and scatter the seed 

 thinly along a drill two inches deep. When the plants 

 get to be three inches high, thin them to four inches, or 

 to eight inches if you wish to have very large onions. 

 When the leaves are nearly dead, pull up the onions, and 

 lay them to dry, in order to be put away for winter use. 



PARSLEY. 



It may be sown at any season when the frost is out 

 of the ground. The best way is to sow it in spring, and 

 in very clean ground ; because the seed lies long in the 

 ground, and, if the ground be foul the weeds choke the 

 plants at their coming up. 



PARSNIP. 



The season of sowing, sort of land, preparation of 

 ground, distances, and cultivation, and tillage,are pre- 

 cisely the same as the Carrot, which see. 



PEA. 



The soil should be good, and fresh dung is good ma- 

 nure for them. Ashes, and compost, are very good. 

 The earliest of all is the little white pea, called in Long 

 Island, the May-pea. 



If you sow in the spring, do it as soon as the grouud 

 is dry enough to go upon. Sow the May-pea, some 

 Charletons. some Hotspurs, some Blue-peas, some Mar- 

 rowfats, and some Knight-pea, all at the same time, and 



