11= BULB 



"^ CROPS 



with several hearts or cores, each of which may 

 be planted and will give rise to another bulb, 

 which, in its turn, will develop two or three 

 more cores. The process is continued in- 

 definitely. 



"Top" onions start quickly and soon give 

 edible onions. If the bulb is planted out the 

 following year it will send up a stalk and pro- 

 duce a new crop of tops. 



To raise "sets," seeds are sown thickly on 

 dry, light ground, where they soon crowd each 

 other, and by midsummer anyway, the tops die 

 for lack of room, food and moisture. The bulbs, 

 which should then be from one-half to three- 

 quarters inch in diameter, are picked, cured and 

 stored as ordinary onions are. When planted 

 in the spring they start to grow again and soon 

 produce eatable bulbs. 



The new early onion culture is growing 

 onions from seedlings raised in the hot-bed or 

 forcing house, and transplanted as soon as the 

 weather permits. By this method the large, 

 quick-growing Southern varieties, Gibraltar and 

 Prize-taker, come to perfection in the North. 

 Our season is too short for this by the ordinary 

 open planting. This "New Onion Culture," 

 which is not so new, after all, except in the 

 middle East, is fully described by T. Greiner, 



