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XXIX. An Account of a successful Method of raising Onions. 

 by Mr. Falla, Nurseryman of Newcastle. In a Letter 

 to Mr. William Anderson, F.H.S. By Sir John Swin- 

 burne, Bart. F.H.S. 



Read March 1, 1814. 



Dear Sir, 



J have received the following information from a very 

 well informed nurseryman, Mr. Falla, of Newcastle ; if 

 you think it novel, or worth troubling the Society with, you 

 are at liberty to state it. 



" The practice of the market-gardeners at Hexham, in 

 Northumberland, in raising Onions, for which article they 

 are very celebrated, so contrary to received opinion and 

 practice, in both Agriculture and Horticulture, is as fol- 

 lows. They sow their Onion seed on the same ground for 

 twenty or more years in succession, but annually manuring 

 the soil. After digging and levelling the ground, the manure, 

 in a very rotten state, is spread upon it, the Onion seed 

 sown upon the manure, and covered with earth from the 

 alleys, and the crops are abundant, and excellent in 

 quality." 



Mr. Falla then mentions a practice he used very suc- 

 cessfully to prevent the depredations of mice in beds, or 

 drills of Acorns, and other tree seeds, and likewise Garden 

 Peas, which is, to cover the seed, before the earth is laid 



