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Louisiana know how to prepare better than any other nationality. Itis also boiled 
in salt and water, and served with vinegar as a salad, and is considered a very 
wholesome dish. Should not be planted before the ground is warm in spring as the 
seeds are apt to rot. Sow in drills, which ought to be two to three feet apart, and 
when up, thin out, and leave one or two plants every twelve or fifteen inches. 
Tall Growing. This is the variety , vated here in this locality for some 
most cultivated here. The pods are | years, will grow taller every year. 
long, round towards the end, and keep New Velvet. <A new variety; dwarf, 
tender longer than the square podded | round, smooth pods, free from ridges 
kind, and seams, and not prickly to the touch ; 
DwarfGreem. Thisisaveryearly | very prolific and early. I tried this 
and prolific variety, and remains tender | variety the last two years, and sold a 
longer than any other. Jt has come | good deal of the seed last year. It has 
into general cultivation, planted much | come up to what is claimed forit. Ire- 
more than the tall. It may be said | commend it to all who have not tried it. 
here, that all dwarf varieties, when culti- 
ONION. 
5 H oy ! ‘ : 
Oanon (Fr.), ZWIEBEL (Ger.), CEBOLLA (SD.). 
Louisiana or Créole. oe | New White Queen. 
The Onion is one of the most important vegetables, and is grown to a large ex- 
tent in Louisiana. It is one of the surest crops to be raised, and always sells. 
Thousands of barrels are shipped in Spring from here to the Western and Northern 
States. There is one peculiar feature about raising Onions here, and that is, they 
ean only be raised from Southern or so-called. Creole seed. No seed from North, 
West, or any part of Europe, will produce a merchantable Onion in the South. 
When the crop of Creole séed is a failure, and they are seuré¢e, they will bring a 
good price, having been sold as high as ten dollars a pound, when at the same time 
Northern seed could be had for one-fourth of that price. Northern raised seed can 
be sown to be used green, but as we have Shallots here which grow duriag the 
whole autumn and winter, and multiply very rapidly, the sowing of seed for green 
Onions is not profitable. Seed ought to be sown from the middle of September 
to the end of October; if sown sooner, too many will throw up seed stalks. When 
the month of September has been dry and hot, the beds where the seeds are sown 
ought to be covered with moss. Where this cannot be had, palmettos can be used, 
but they should be taken off in the evening and replaced in the morning. When 
the seeds are well up, this is no longer necessary, but watering should be continued. 
—They are generally sown broad-cast, and when the size of a goose quill should be 
transplanted into rows one to two feet apart, and about five inches in the rows. 
Onions are different, in regard to rotation, from other vesetables. They do best if 
raised on the same ground for a succession cf years. Onions did not bring very 
high prices, owing to the very heavy yield, the larzest ever made in Louisiana upon 
the same acreage. The crop of seed has been short the past season, and prices so 
high that it was impossible to sow any for sets. Could not fill orders received in 
the latter part of the season; seeds were sold out. 
- Lowisiana or Creole Onion. This | been selling of this kind, fora number 
is generally of a light red color, darker | of years, has been raised on Bayou La- 
than the Strassburg, and lighterin color | fourche, and has never failed to make 
than the Wethersfield. TheseedI have © fine large Onions. 
