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grew nicely and would have given a splendid return had it not been for 

 the drought which took them. 



Mr. H. Jackson, Mancleville. — I have much pleasure to report that 

 the Bermuda onion seeds I got from you turned out a success — I grew 

 them on red soil highly manured with ashes and stable manure mixed. 

 Some I manured with stable manure alone, but those did not turn out 

 as well as the others with the mixture. I find they thrive best on land 

 that has been previously cultivated ; I drilled seeds about a foot apart, 

 and sowed an inch apart in each row. When the seedlings attained 

 the height of 4 inches I thinned them, thereby giving them a space of 

 about 3 inches. After this I did nothing in the way of cultivation, 

 except keeping the soil free from weeds. I had to water freely on 

 account of the severe drought we had at the time I planted. Most of 

 my onions weighed Jib. but they averaged about 6 ozs. Seed was sown 

 first week in November and bulbs were taken up in March. I would 

 like a few more seeds if you can spare them to make another trial. 



M. A. G. Heron, Cross Keys. — The Bermuda onion seed you sent me 

 were planted last October and sprouted fairly well, but owing to the 

 dry weather commencing with me from middle of December until 

 March 1895 the bulbs were very small taking 50 to 60 to the pound. 

 The Indian onion seeds you sent me were planted in Oct. last, but did 

 not sprout so well, a good deal of the seeds must have been bad. Owing 

 to the dry weather, being several months without rain, the bulbs were 

 very small, but of a good flavour, aud rather finer than the Bermuda 

 onion. 



Mr. A. C. Martin, Cross Keys. — Both the Bermuda and East Indian 

 onion seeds were sown in Oct. 1894. The Bermuda sprouted well and 

 the bed was thinned out, seedlings pulled up were transplanted into 

 another bed, altogether 152 square feet was planted out and by the end 

 of March 1895, I gathered 44 lbs. of well cured onions some of which 

 I exhibited at the Mancleville Flower Show in May and obtained first 

 prize. 



The East Indian seed did not sprout well and in consequence I did 

 not thin out seed bed. From 57 sq. feet of land I gathered 14f lbs of 

 well cured onions by end of April, 1895. The bulbs were not very 

 large but of fair size and on the whole there were not many small onions. 

 From my experience I think the month of August, September and Oc- 

 tober best for sowing seed I find the seedlings stand transplanting well 

 and this should be clone when they are about 4 inches high, when kept 

 until tney are taller they die more readily. I have tried to induce the 

 small settlers in my neighbourhood to cultivate onions offering them 

 seeds and plants, but it seems to be a difficult matter to get them to 

 attempt anything new. I will be glad to get more onion seeds as soon 

 as you have any. 



Mr. C. P. Nosworthy, Newport. — The onion seed was sowed last Oc- 

 tober and came up very regularly, but the extreme drought ever since 

 has rather perished them — they are however now beginning to recover 

 strength and after a little more rain I will transplant all the thinnings. 



Mr. C. T. Dewar, Duncans -I have seen a bed of onions in Duncans 

 grown by the Schoolmaster Mr. Fullerton. They are really good and 

 if always as successful they would be a very paying item in a market 



