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mer, to have a few that are green and 

 young. But there is another fowing 

 which the gardiners efteem very much 

 of, inafmuch as it furnifhes tiiem with 

 young green onions all the winter, and 

 till fpring comes, and even then till the 

 middle of April, till thofe fowed in 

 January or February come in to fupply 

 themj thefe are call'd Michaelmas oni- 

 ons, and are fow'd at the fame time 

 that the Michaelmas carrots are, about 

 the middle of July 5 and in all mild fea- 

 fons, the beginning of Auguft will be 

 foon enough. 



For onions, efpecially the main crop, 

 the befi: way to make them head well, 

 is to draw a heavy roller over them, 

 which breaking or bending the ftalks 

 and greens, flops the fap in its afcent, 

 and difpofes the bulb to fwell the larger. 

 The leekf Leeks are fown at the fame time that 

 its time ^/the main crops of onions are ; and you 

 jom?i^. muft tranfplant them out in the months 

 of July or Augufi, in moift weather, 

 about fix inches afunder, in beds where 

 you intend they fhall ftand all the win- 

 ter. They ihould be planted three or 

 four inches deep, and fome there are 

 that plant them in fingle rows in trenches, 



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