Crops Grown for Their Leaves 233 
Fic. 131. “Dry” onions grown from onion sets. They are now ready to be 
pulled, dried, and stored away for the winter. 
in a cool cellar or in a cold frame. In the South the 
crop may be left in the garden for use as needed. 
The green leaves of the leek have a coarse texture, 
a rank odor, and are strongly acrid when eatenraw. The 
blanched portion is more tender and less acrid. When 
the leek is cooked, the flavor is even milder than that of 
most onions; hence the plant is excellent for flavoring . 
soups and stews. There are not many varieties of the 
leek offered by seedsmen. London or American Flag 
and Large Rouen are standard sorts. 
Seed onions and their culture. If the seed of these 
onions is planted in spring and the plants well cared for, 
each plant forms a large bulb or “ dry” onion before 
autumn arrives. When properly cured and _ stored, 
