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used for pickling, though many prefer it for slicing. No. 3 is 
used altogether for pickles, and cultivated in the ordinary manner. 
Previous to planting, a shovel full of well-rotted manure should be 
placed in each hill; after which, four or five seed may be sown 
half an inch deep. One ounce of seed is sufficient for two hundred 
hills. When attacked by the fly, if soot, powdered charcoal, or 
tobacco dust, be sprinkled over the plants, it will generally serve 
to check their ravages. When the plants have made a growth 
of two or three inches, they should be thinned to two or three in a 
hill, the ground carefully hoed, and the earth drawn up around 
them. The ground should be kept free from weeds, and in very 
dry weather, the plants watered ocgasionally in the evening. 
CHIVES, OR CIVES. 
A small species of Onion, growing in large tufts. Propagated 
by offsets, and planted in either spring or autumn, in rows ten or 
twelve inches apart, and the bulbs three or four inches apart in 
the rows. 
EGG-PLANT. 
1. Large Purple. 2. Early Purple. 
The seed of the Egg-plant must be sown in a hot-bed, early in 
the spring, and the sashes kept down close until the plants come 
up; after which, a little air should be given in the heat of the day. 
The latter end of spring, if settled warm weather, the plants may 
be set out, about two feet apart, in a rich, warm piece of ground. 
If kept clean, and a little earth be drawn up to their stems when 
about a foot high, they will produce plenty of fruit. The seed 
do not vegetate freely, and repeated sowing are sometimes ne- 
cessary. As Egg-plants will not grow in the open ground until 
settled warm weather, and are frequently destroyed by frost when 
planted too early, it will be found advisable to transplant them 
