HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
ONIONS— AS GROWN FROM SETS 
T HREE distinct types of onion sets deserve the con- 
sideration of the home gardener. The most widely 
grown are the common bottom sets which are really small 
bulbs of either white, yellow, or red onions, produced by 
sowing seeds thickly in the rows. The resulting stunted 
onion bulblets ripen in August. Stored through the win- 
ter, to be set out very early the following spring, they 
either furnish green “scallions” or can be grown to become 
large bulbs. They are generally planted early in April 
in rows, two to three inches apart, two inches deep, with 
ten to twelve inch space between the rows. 
The other types of sets are either small bulbs formed 
on top of stalks, in place of the seeds, or small bulblets 
forming in the ground beside the mother-bulb. The 
best known of the last named is the potato onion set or 
multiplier. Of the onion forming in clusters (as illus- 
trated) on top of stalk, the Egyptian or Perennial Tree 
Onion is the most popular. Both these types are very 
much hardier than the common bottom sets and, for best 
results, should be planted in the fall. They will then 
furnish the first green onions in the spring. 
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