170 A HOME VEGETABLE-GARDEN 



plateful of the quick-growing tender tops is bet- 

 ter than young onions with bread and butter. 

 Chop the fresh shoots and use them to flavor the 

 soup or the stew, to add snap to the plain sand- 

 wich, to give character to salad. Merely secure a 

 root, which means a bunch of the tiniest onion 

 bulbs ; tuck them in somewhere ; and leave them to 

 grow themselves. If a little care is given the 

 chives and they are kept cut and watered, their 

 early mild flavor and tenderness will remain 

 throughout the season. 



