212 The GARDENtR's Ntw Director; 



MUSTARD. 



THE feeds of this plant are fown in December or Ja- 

 nuary, upon hot-beds, fo that in a month after 

 fowing, they are ready to cut, which is befl: when 

 the plants have two, or at nnofl: three leaves ; for if they 

 are fuffered to lland longer, they will be too flrong. 

 You may fow them thick in drills upon the border of a 

 fouth-afpe(9:ed wall, for fallading in Marcb and ^pril^ 

 until the Lettuces and other fallads come in. 



ONIONS. 



1 The Strajhurg. 



2 The Silver^fkinned. 



3 The ^'''elfiy, 



4 The Portugal, or red-fl^inned. 



THE Strajhurg fhould be fovv^n the beginning of 

 March, in good rich kitchen-garden ground, 

 which has been Av.ell dug the preceding September or Och- 

 ber,:s.Vid laid up m ridges^^or the benefit oi" the winter froft, 

 to mould it; the dung {which in hot fandv grounds fhould 

 be cows, and in clay foils, horfes) may be laid in the 

 bottoms of the ridges to rot, to be dug in in February. 

 I would have Onions fown in beds, for the better weed- 

 ing and thinning them. 



Thefe beds may be four, or at m.ofl; five feet broad, 

 and of fuch a length as the ground will allow. They 

 muft be kept conrtantly clear of weeds, and firfl: thinned 

 to two inches, bulb from bulb, and afterwards to fix,- 

 as your Onions fwel! in bignefs, for the more they are 

 thinned, the larger they will grow ; and as foon as you 

 perceive the tops of their grafs to p-ovj yellow, and fall, 

 which, if a fandy foil, they will do in Angujl ; but in 

 clay they continue much longer in verdure. But fhould 

 you perceive the bulbs not to fwtU, lay down their 



grafs 



