The Canadian Horticulturist 21 r 



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ANOTHER NEW ONION CULTURE. 



iT seems strange that so many people of different minds arrive at the 

 same conclusions in so many different ways, and that, too, almost at 

 the same time. Having been successful in my experiments, I tell of 

 my excellent crops of the last five years. 



I claim as fine crops of big onions as Mr. Greiner's, and two crops 

 a year at that. My seedling plants are raised with far less trouble, are 

 stronger and sturdier, and take all care of themselves until ready to be 

 transplanted. 



Five years ago I bought one pound of " Extra Early Pearl " onion seed. Bj 

 the 1 5th of September the seed was sown pretty thick in rows nine inches apart 

 The plants soon showed up, and the bright little green seedlings grew about 

 three inches high, and so remained all winter in open ground without the least 

 covering or protection of any kind. As soon as the weather permitted, in early 

 spring, I began to transplant to a piece of ground prepared and manured the 

 autumn before. I transplanted about four inches apart, the rows one foot apart, 

 and the only manure used during the spring months was wood ashes sown broad- 

 cast over the rows. The onions ripened finely, and, when they were pulled, were 

 a sight to behold. There were bushels of them — large, waxy, white onions, five 

 and six inches across. But that was not all, for I had a second crop that year. 

 That same spring, when I was through transplanting the seedling onions, I sent 

 for another pound of Extra Early Pearl onion seed, and drilled in thick to raise 

 sets. In due time they ripened and were harvested, and by the first of October 

 were set out, three inches apart, in rows one foot apart, and March first I began 

 to pull the crop for early market. 



Two such wonderful crops, one in early spring, the other in autumn, have 

 been unfailing with me each year during the last five years, this being the sixth. 

 From where I sit as I write, this loth day of February, I can see the rows of 

 little seedling onions standing, thousands strong, like so many sentinels pointing 

 the way to this, " another new onion culture " ; for my experiments are experi- 

 ments no longer. — John C. Hart, in Popular Gardening. 



A fruit-grower reports that having an orchard of young trees badly infested 

 with bark lice he made a solution of sal soda — half a pound to a gallon of water 

 — and applied it with a white- wash brush. In a week's time they were all dead 

 and washed off. The trees grew two feet a year afterward and remained very 

 healthy. 



