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ratter agreeable to most tastes. The juice is a good 

 cement for broken china. 



Allium Fistolosum — Oiboule, or Welsh Onion. 

 This is a perennial with large succulent fistular leaves, 

 never forming bulbs, but cultivated for a spring salad. 

 Sow the seed the last of September. It will continue 

 growing all winter, withstanding the severest frosts. Sow 

 thickly, and thin out when wanted for use. It may 

 be sown at any time during the winter, but it is better 

 when sown as directed above. Once introduced into the 

 garden it will last many years, but it is hardly worth cul- 

 tivating as, on account of its strong taste, it is much infe- 

 rior to the common onion. 



Allium Porrum-^ljEEK. 

 The leek is a hardy biennial, found wild in Switzerland, 

 but has been cultivated in gardens from the earliest times. 

 It is mentioned in the Scriptures with the onion, as one of 

 the vegetables of the Egyptians ; and at the present day 

 is often associated with the name of St. David, the patron 

 saint of the Welsh. This plant endures the extremes of 

 heat and cold without injury. The following analysis of 

 the ashes of the roots and leaves of the leek is by Rich- 

 ardson : 





Bdlb. 



Stem. 



Potassa, 



32.35 



13.98 



Soda, 



8.04 



14.43 



Lime, 



12.66 



25.10 



Magnesia, 



2.70 



trace 



Sulphuric Acid, 



8.34 



16.50 



Silicic Acid, 



3.04 



19.77 



Phosphoric Acid, 



15.09 





Phosphate of Iron. 



13.29 



10.06 



Chloride of Sodium, 



4.49 



trace 





100.00 



99.84 



6* 



