VEGETABLES 297 



DRAWINGS. 



1. Seeds: natural size and magnified. 



2. Seedling as it first appears. 



3. Seedling when leaf straightens out. 



4. Seedling at time of transplanting. 



5. Mature bulbs. 



THE STORY. 



Tell or write the story of your experience in raising onions. 



Onions from Sels 



GROWING OUT-DOORS. 



1. Plant the sets, one inch apart, in rows twelve inches 



apart, just burying each set and pushing the earth 

 firmly down beside it. 



2. Keep the surface of the soil stirred frequently, and pull 



out the weeds between the plants. 



3. When the new onions are about one-half inch or more 



in diameter, pull and tie in bunches of a dozen or 

 fifteen each. 



RECORD or GROWTH. 



1. Onion sets. Size, shape, and color. Name of variety. 



Date of planting. 



2. Date of hoeing and weeding, 



3. Date of pulling. 



DRAWINGS. 



1. Two or three onion sets. 



2. A plant at the time it is pulled. 



