18 On Onions. 



through the cork, which enabled the gardener to drop it 

 with facility equi distant.) The ground was attended 

 to as usual. 



The result was, that I had as good a crop of onions, 

 and as large as what was gathered from an adjoining 

 bed that had been planted with small onions in the old 

 mode, with this difference only, that they were a few 

 days later, which was a material objection, as ours ob- 

 tain a superiority by reaching a foreign market, before 

 those of Connecticut. It then occurred to me, that that 

 obstacle might be overcome by sowing the onion seed 

 in September, after a crop of peas, beans, or any early 

 vegetable or grain, was taken off. Therefore the next 

 fall, I had a large spot of ground prepared and sowed it 

 the second week in September ; they attained a good 

 size that fall, and were tended as other onions next 

 spring, and I had the satisfaction to find them as early, 

 large and numerous as any produced that season, and 

 generally the largest I had ever raised ; since when I 

 have pursued no other mode, and have not failed except 

 in one bed which the gardener had neglected sowing 

 until the middle of October, which I found was too late, 

 a part of them being thrown out by the frost, as they 

 had not obtained a sufficient hold of the ground. 



The comparative advantage of this, over the old mode 

 of culture, must be very evident, as it is a saving of 

 nearly half the labour as well as time. 



By the old mode they must be sowed and gathered, 

 planted out the next year, and again gathered, two years 

 occupation of ground, as also a lapse of two years be- 

 fore the farmer receives his reward for labour. 



