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Spairiy which was certainly its native 

 country not long ago 5 but Varro (in his 

 Geoponicksj as T>elacampius in his re- 

 marks on Tliny, lib. 20.) fays, that if 

 they are drefsd and eaten with fait and 

 vinegar, they effedually deftroy worms> 

 cap, 5 . Which from the little fmall cloves 

 that are in the head, and are like fo 

 many little bulbs, I call allium Hifpani- 

 cum bulbiferum. There are included like- 

 wife in this account I have given of oni- 

 ons, &c. what we call chibouls, or by 

 fome fcallions 5 which arc only a dege- 

 nerate onion, that will never head, of 

 which nature (as one elegantly expreifes 

 it) has as it were mifcarried 5 they pro- 

 duce upright fhoots and a great deal of 

 green, but no bulb 5 the feeds are fo 

 like the onion, that it's hard to diftin- 

 guifh one from the other. Thefc are ge- 

 nerally planted out of the feed-bed at 

 about fix or eight inches afunder, in 

 fome fliady border, where they will 

 ferve the common ufes of the boiler all 

 the fummer, and, if they don't feed, the 

 winter too ; but they ihould be fowed 



»or planted thin, and water d, for the rca- 

 fons that other herbs and bulbs of thefe 

 kinds arCo 



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