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and suspend them in a dry loft or store-room ; or rub off the 
little bulbs and store in nets or chip boxes. The root bulbs 
are excellent for 
stews and other 
purposes for 
which onions are 
employed in the 
kitchen, and the 
top bulbs make 
a better pickle 
than any other 
kind of onion, 
their flavour 
being peculiarly 
sweet and mild. 
The tree onion is 
but little known, 
yet it is at once 
good and profit- 
able, provided it 
obtains the few small attentions it 
requires at the proper time. If the 
crowns are allowed to lie on the 
ground, as they will do if unsup- 
ported, there is a likelihood of a con- 
siderable proportion of the crop being 
lost through the assaults of vermin ; 
snails, slugs, and woodlice having a 
peculiar liking for this particular sort, 
owing, no doubt, to its delicate 
flavour. 
The Leek (. Allium porrum) may 
be grown in the most slipshod way 
and will then give a good return, 
and in most cases suffice for the house- 
hold, and it may be grown with great 
care in nearly the same way as celery, 
and will certainly pay for the extra 
labour bestowed upon it. To make a 
long article on the subject would 
really be a waste of space in this 
volume of concentrations. There stands TRBB o^ion. 
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