The Home Garden 



at night with blankets, or old newspapers. 

 When they have every appearance of being ripe, 

 gather them, and store in a warm, dry place. 

 Handle them with extreme care, for every bruise 

 means decay, later on. Do not cut away the 

 stalks which attaches them to the vine. Save 

 this with them, if you want them to keep well. 



Gather in the onion crop as soon as the tops 

 turn brown and crinkle down. Pull them, 

 leave them on the beds, in the sun, for two or 

 three days, and then *'top" them, and store 

 away in a cool and airy place. 



This is a good time of the year to think about 

 making a compost-bed. Most gardeners allow 

 a great deal of good material to go to waste 

 simply because they have no place to keep it 

 in. You will be surprised to find what an 

 amount of excellent fertilizer is thrown away, 

 after you have had a compost-bed for a year 

 or two. Make a pen in a comer of the garden, 

 and throw into it everything of a vegetable 

 nature that will decay readily. Rake up the 

 leaves from the lawn and add to it. If you get 

 a little extra manure, at any time, dum^p it in. 

 Stir frequently, with a fork, and thoroughly 

 saturate it, on every washing-day, with soap- 



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