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numerous varieties of onions would necessarily require poma ians 
extending over some years. As far as is known at present the red 
varieties of onions suffer rather less than the white, but our Eodwlo ge 
on this snbject is too meagre to justify any recommendations as to 
EN the seed. 
seased onions do not produce flower heads ; there is, therefore, 
a fear that the seed is being weakened by being gathered from diseased 
p'a 
own where they will obtain the morning sun and a resh rocis. 
They should never be placed at the bottom of a hollow, nor in any 
position which i is too ech sie from the sun or wind. That the 
sun and wind have a great influence in arresting the disease is shown 
by the fact that the disease is P pemutfbaly unknown on the southern side 
of the Islands. 
The practice of transplanting the young onion undoubtedly pense 
the plant for some little time, until its roots have taken hold of the 
Europe the seeds are sown generally by means of a drill, at sucha 
distance apart as is deemed necessary for the bulb to fill, and the onion 
is never transplanted. By this means a period of weakness is avoided, 
during aie the plant would be ill-prepared to resist the disease shouid 
it appea 
It is important to i ea the fact that manures must not be 
looked upon as a means of curi ng the disease, but simply as a means of 
strengthening the crop of onio 
With regard to the kind of manure it is the universal opinion amongst 
the onion-cultivators of Europe and America that natural manures are 
preferable to artificial. Of these that from the boar is perhaps the 
best, and an excellent manure for onions is made b, m seaweed 
under the hogs. Stable manure is also very valuable, but it cannot be 
too strongly stated that the liquid parts of the mna manures are the 
oes on it loses little of its valuable constituents whilst it becomes more 
concentrated. At the same time some of its constitnents are rendered 
more soluble, and hence are more easily washed into the soil and more 
p taken up by the plant. If kept in heaps it should be turned once 
or twice, as by this means many of the seeds of pria are destroyed. 
; Seiki to the impossibility of keeping much stock in Bermuda a 
demand for farmyard manures greatly ae ahi supply. In 
connexion it is worth drawing the attention of farmers to the compressed 
manure which is now being prepared by the Horse Car —— ies of 
New York and Philadelphia, and sold by them at a moderate pric 
Another manure which has been highly recommended for onions is 
potash in the ashes ens in my oriai be dangerous ia Whare the onion 
disease is prevalent, it has recently been suggested that potash 
manures foster the developmen aid growth of fungoid diseases. 
Situation. 
Transplanting. 
Manure. 
