KITCHEX-GARDEN-PLANTS. ClIAP. 



time that they are frozen. Any dry, airy place will, there- 

 fore, do. They should not be kept in a warm place j for 

 they will heat and grow. The neatest way is to tie them 

 up in ropes ; that is to say, to tie them round sticks, or 

 straight straw, with matting. For seed, pick out the 

 finest onions, and plant them out in rich land, in the 

 spring. To grow this seed upon a large scale, plough 

 the land into four feet ridges, lay plenty of dung along 

 the furrows, plough the ground back over the dung, 

 flatten the top of the ridge a little, and put along, on the 

 top of the ridge two rows of onions, the rows seven 

 inches apart, and the onions seven inches apart in the 

 rows. When the weeds come, hoe the tops of the ridges 

 with a small hoe, and plough first from and then to the 

 ridges, two or three times, at the distance of two or three 

 weeks. When the seed is ripe, cut off the heads and 

 collect them in such a way as not to scatter the seed. 

 Lay them, on cloths, in the sun, till dry as dust ; and 

 then thresh out the seed, winnow it, and put it away. 

 The seed will be dead ripe in August, and turnips or 

 early York cabbages, or even Kidney dwarf beans, may 

 follow upon the same ground, the same year. In a 

 garden there always ought to be a crop to succeed seed- 

 onions the same summer. There are several sorts of 

 onions, of which the red is the hardiest and the hottest, 

 and the white the tenderest and the mildest, and the best 

 for pickling. The straw-coloured sort is, perhaps, the 

 best for a main crop. 



167. PARSLEY. Known to every human being to 

 bear its seed the second year, and, after that, to die away. 

 It may be sowed at any season when the frost is out of the 



