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storeroom ; or rub off the little bulbs and store in nets or chip boxes. 
The root bulbs are excellent for stews and other purposes lor which 
onions are employed in the kitchen, and the top bulbs make a better 
pickle than any other kind of onion, their llavour being peculiarly 
sweet and mild. The tree onion is but little known, yet it is at 
once good and profitable, ])rovided it obtains the few small attentions 
it requires at the proper time. If the crowns are allowed to lie on 
the ground, as they Avill do if unsupported, there is a likelihood of a 
considerable proportion of the crop being lost through the assaults 
of vermin ; snails, slugs, and woodlice having a peculiar liking for 
this f)articulur sort, owing, no doxrbt, to its line llavour. 
Tuis Selection op Vauieties must be determined by the re- 
quirements of the cultivator. Tor a good crop of useful onions anv 
of the race of White Spanish, such as Headincj, or Wioneham Park, 
will answer every purpose, and as they keep well and look well, 
they are among the best of market onions. For autumn sowing, 
the Tripoli or Strashurgh sections are the best ; and, perhaps, the 
very best two sorts amongst them are Red Tripoli and Giamt Rocea. 
Tf particularly large onions are required, sow Giant Madeira, both 
in the open ground and in a frame in August or September, and 
plant out in March, in a bed of rotten stable manure six inches 
deep, made on a bottom of hard soil. Jfoue of the Madeira or 
Portugal race keep long, and therefore there should be no more 
grown than are likely to be required for autumn and early winter 
use. Amongst the late-keeping sorts, James's is considered the 
best. A true sample of this variety should be tall, and broader at 
the shoulder than the base, somewhat of the shape of the great oil- 
jars which figure in the story of “Ali Eaba; or the Forty Thieves.” 
A fine onion for main crop is Trehons, whicli may be known by its 
appearing as if pinched by finger and thumb near the root. The 
Welsh Onion ranks high with many w'ho require salad onions in 
winter; but we could never find any use for it, always having plenty 
of silvery little onions from autumn sowings, which are certainly 
preferable to the rather puffy green blades of this variety, which 
does not produce bulbs. However, the Welsh onion is very hardy, 
and may be very useful in cold climates, where the Tripoli or 
Spanish onions refuse to stand the winter. Moreover, if the green 
blades are desired in early spring for salads, as in many houses they 
are, there will always be found plenty rising from old bulbs in the 
store ; and while these are fresh and crisp, and fully exposed, they 
are excellent, both for soups and salads. S. H. 
THE GAEDEN GUIDE FOR AUGUST. 
Kitchen Gakden. — Tlie various kinds of winter greens claim 
the first attention, and it is necessary to insure at once a good 
supply, and a variety. By this time Scotch kale, Brussels sprouts, 
broccolifl, savoys, etc., ought to be strong, and where they have been 
planted between rows of peas, to stand the winter, should now be 
August. 
