128 THE AMATEURS’ GUIDE 
Seed Onions are generally planted in the spring, in shallow drills, 
fourteen inches apart, but will survive the winter, and yield better 
by being planted in autumn, if slightly covered with litter, long 
manure, or leaves. Onions are an exception to the general rule 
of never cropping the same ground successively with the same 
crop, as they succeed any number of years if the ground be kept 
highly manured. Nos. 1 and 2 are esteemed varieties. The latter 
keep best, though not so delicately flavored as the former. No. 3 
is grown extensively in the eastern States, where it matures the 
first season. 
OKRA. 
This vegetable is used extensively in soups and stews. It is 
highly nutritious, and deemed very wholesome. Sow the seed late 
in spring, in hills two or three feet apart, and two or three seed in 
each,—or in drills, three feet apart, and eight or ten inches between 
the same. The seed are liable to rot in the ground, and should be 
sown thickly to secure the requisite quantity of plants. Very rich 
ground should be selected for its culture. 
PARSLEY. 
Curled, or Double. Plain, or Single. 
Soak the seed a few hours in warm water, and sow very early 
in the spring, in drills an inch deep, and one foot apart. If cov- 
ered with straw or the branches of evergreens, it may be preserved 
through the winter. 
PARSNIP. 
Sugar,—Hollow Crowned, or Capped.—Lisbonaise. 
Sow the seed from the first to the middle of spring, in deeply- 
dug and well-manured ground, in drills, one inch deep and four- 
