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each, and often sell at eight and ten cents per bunch. 

 The crop is usually begun to be marketed by the middle 

 of June, and is sold off by the middle of July. This 

 garden crop of Onions is usually heavier manured and 

 requires more labor than the field crop, but its market 

 value is often three times that of the field crop. Onions 

 are also sown in this vray when grown from seed, but of 

 course this matures two or three weeks later, and is not 

 usually so remunerative as the green crop from the sets. 



POTATO ONIONS. 



These are increased by the bulb, as it grows, splitting 

 into six, eight, or ten sections, which form the crop from 

 which the "set'' or root for next season's planting is ob- 

 tained. The sets are planted in early spring, in rows one 

 foot apart, the Onions three or four inches between, and, 

 like the Onions raised from sets, are generally sold 

 green, as in that state they are very tender, while in the 

 dry state they are less desirable than the ordinary Onion. 



TOP ONIONS. 



Top Onions, so called, are propagated by the peculiar 

 property of this variety of Onion producing a cluster of 

 small bulblets on the Onion stalk. An excrescence of 

 bulblets is formed instead of flowers and seeds. In all 

 respects its culture is the same as the Potato Onion, only 

 that, as the bulbs are smaller, they can be planted closer. 



SHALLOTS. 



A vegetable nearly allied to the Potato Onion, only 

 that it never forms an individual bulb but always grows 



