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lightly all the Weeds from amongft 

 the Onions i as alfb cutting out the 

 Onions where they grow too clofe 

 in Bunches, leaving them at this 

 firft hoeing two Inches apart : This, 

 if well perform'd, and in a^ dry 

 Seafon, will preferve the Spot clear 

 ot Weeds, at leaft: a Month, at 

 which Time you mufl: hoe them 

 over a fecond time, cutting up all 

 the Weeds, as before, and alfo cut- 

 ting out the Onions to a larger Dii^ 

 tance, leaving them this time three 

 Inches afunder. This alfo, if well 

 perform'd, will preferve the Ground 

 clean a Month longer, when you 

 muft hoe them over the third and 

 lafl: time. 



You muft now carefully cut up 

 all Weeds, and lingle out the Onions 

 to near fix Inches fquarej by which 

 means they will grow much lar- 

 ger than if left too clofe. This 

 Time of Hoeing, if the Weather 

 proves dry, and it be well per- 

 form'd, will keep the Ground clean 

 until the Onions are fit to pull up : 

 But if the V/eather fliould prove 

 moift, and any ot the Weeds fliould 

 take Root again, you fliould, about 

 a, Fortnight or three Weeks after, 

 go over the Spot, and draw out 

 all the large Weeds with your 

 Hands} for the Onic7is having now 

 begun to bulb, they fliould not be 

 difturb'd with a Hoe. 



Toward the Middle or latter 

 End of July, your Onions will have 

 arriv'd to their full Growth, which 

 may be known, by their Blades 

 falling to the Ground and flirink- 

 ingj you fhould therefore, before 

 their Necks or Blades are withered 

 off, draw them out of the Ground, 

 cropping off the extreme Part of 

 the Blade, and lay them abroad up- 

 on a dry Spot of Ground to dry, 

 obferving to turn them over every 

 other Day, at lealf , to prevent their 



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ftriking frefh Root into the Ground; 

 which they will fuddenly do, efpc 

 cially in moifl Weather. 



In about a Fortnight's Time your ' 

 Onions will be dry enough tohoufe, 

 which muft be perform'd in per- 

 fcdl dry Weather : In doing of this, 

 you muft carefully rub off all the 

 Earth, and be fure to mix no faulty- 

 ones amongft them, which will 

 in a fhort time decay, and fpoil all 

 thofe that lie near them 5 nor fhould 

 you lay them too thick in the 

 Houfe, which would occafion their 

 fweating, and thereby rot them : 

 Thefe fhould not be put in a lower 

 Room, or Ground-floor, but in a 

 Loft or Garret ,• and the clofer they 

 are kept from the Air, the better 

 they will keep : You ftiould at leaft 

 once a Month look over them, to 

 fee if any of them are decay'd ; ' 

 which if you find, muft be imme- 

 diately taken away, otkerwife they 

 will infed all that lie near them. 



The beft Onions for keeping, are 

 the Strasburgh Kind, which \z an 

 oval-fhap'd Bulb i but this feldom 

 grows fo large as the Sfanifh, 

 which is flatter : The white Sort 

 is efteem'd the fweeteft, but thefe 

 Varieties are not lafting, for if you 

 fave Seeds of white Onions only, 

 you will have a Mixture of the red ^ ' 

 ones amongft them i . nor w\\\ the 

 Strasburgh Onion keep long to its 

 Kind, but will by degrees grow 

 flatter, as do the large 'Portugal 

 Onionsy when planted in our Cli- 

 mate, which, in a Year or two, 

 will be {6 far degenerated as not 

 to be known they were from that 

 Race. 



But, in order to preferve Sctds, 

 you muft in the Spring make 

 Choice of fome of the firmeft, 

 largeft, and oval-fhap'd Onions, (in 

 Quantity proportionable to the Seed ^ 

 you intend to fave) and having prc- 

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