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setting the plants three inches deep, five inches 

 apart and sixteen inches from row to row. Onions 

 may also be sown outdoors and thinned to three 

 inches apart. The young onions can be used as 

 they are, or the thinnings transplanted to other rows 

 as has been described. Onions may also be grown 

 from sets planted one inch deep, three inches apart 

 and one foot from row to row. Sow the seed, or 

 plant the sets, in March, as soon as the ground 

 can be worked. 



Leeks — Sow t March 10. Varieties: American 

 Flag and Large Carentan. 



Leeks are greatly prized for soups and when 

 cut into small pieces and cooked as onions they 

 make a delicious vegetable. Sow in coldframes 

 and give the same care as recommended for onions. 

 They will be ready for use in September. Trans- 

 plant when the size of an ordinary lead pencil to 

 trenches which have been dug eight inches deep 

 and one foot wide, into which has been put a 3- 

 inch layer of manure, and one and one-half inches 

 of soil to plant in. Set them about two inches 

 deep, so that the neck is covered, and draw a little 

 soil up to them from time to time, as they grow, 

 to blanch them. They may be grown in a double 

 row, the individual rows being nine inches apart, 

 and the plants six inches apart in the row. 

 ' Beans — Sozv March so, and for succession 

 every two weeks. Varieties: Triumph of the Frames, 

 and Early Mohawk. 



Beans require a light, not over-rich soil. For 

 early use, sow Triumph of the Frames in cold- 



