54 RICHARD FROTSCHER’S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL 
Louisiana know how to prepare better than any other nationality. It is also boiled 
in salt and water, and served with vinegar asa salad, and is considered a very 
wholesome dish. Should not be planted before the groundis 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. Thisis the variety 
most cultivated here. The pods are 
long, round towards the end, and keep 
tender longer than the square podded 
kind. 
DwarfGreen. This isa very early 
and prolifie variety, and remains tender 
longer than any other. It has come 
into general cultivation, planted much 
more than the tall. It may be said 
here, that all dwarf varieties, when culti- 
vated here in this locality for some 
years, will grow taller every year. 
New Velvet. A new variety ; dwarf, 
round, smooth pods, free from ridges 
and seams, and not prickly to the touch ; 
very prolific and early. I tried this 
variety the last two years, and solda 
good deal of the seed last year. It has 
come up to what is claimed for it. Ire- 
commend it to all who have not tried it. 
ONION. — 
OGNON (Fr.), ZwWIEBEL (Ger.), CEBOLLA (Sp.). 
Louisiana or Creole. 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 sels. 
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 seed is a failure, and they are scarce, they will bring a 
good price, having been sold as high as ten dollars a pound, when at thesame time 
Northern seed could be had for one-fourth of that price. Northern raised seed ean 
be sown to be used green, but as we have Shallots here which grow during 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 ean 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 vegetables. They do best if 
raised on the same ground for a succession of years. Onions did not bring very 
high prices, owing to the very heavy yield, the largest 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. 
Louisiana 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 lLa- 
than the Strassburg, and lighterin color fourche, and has never failed to make 
than the Wethersfield. The seed I have fine large Onions. 
