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will stand mild winters. Where a large quan 
lity of green onions are required for salads 
and other purposes, small quantities should 
be sown in nearly every month of the year, 
from the above period, in order to be enabled 
to keep up a supply of young and mild plants. 
To grow a crop fit for pickling, the seed 
should be sown, on rather poor ground, at the 
same time as for the general crop ; and as the 
bulbs are wanted small, the seed should be 
sown broadcast and very thick. Of course 
no weeds must be suffered to interfere with 
the plants. The crop will be ripe long before 
the main supply, and the ground may be 
applied to other purposes. The best varieties 
for this purpose are indicated in the above list. 
Where it is a point to obtain very large 
onions, a very good plan is to sow seed of the 
Portugal, Lisbon Two-bladed, or some other 
sort — although the above will be found the 
best — in May, in poor soil, and letting them 
grow very thick, so that when ripe the bulbs 
should not exceed the size of nuts. These 
small bulbs must be carefully kept in a dry 
place until the following March ; when, as 
soon as the weather permits, they should be 
planted in a warm and rich piece of ground, 
placing them in rows about nine inches or a 
foot asunder, and about six inches apart in the 
rows. They should be slightly covered with 
leaf-mould, or similar light compost, and must 
be well watered in dry weather, keeping the 
weeds down and the earth well stirred among 
the plants. Perhaps the largest onions pro- 
duceable in England are to be grown in this 
way. Very large bulbs may also be procured 
by sowing a little seed in pots or boxes in a 
warm frame in February, and transplanting 
them into similarly prepared ground, being very 
careful not to close the earth about the stem 
of the plant, but only on the fibres ; of course 
they must be strictly attended to in watering. 
The culture of the Underground Onion is 
very simple, and as the return is very great 
it is a variety particularly suited for small 
gardens. In January, select a piece of pre- 
pared ground, as previously recommended, 
and mark it oif into beds, then mark the beds 
in rows about ten inches apart, and plant the 
bulbs on the surface of the soil, just lightly 
pressing them down to fix them, and then 
cover them about an inch or so above their 
crowns with leaf-mould, and make up the 
beds, leaving all clean and neat. They need 
but little more attention than to keep them 
clear of weeds ; for whether moulded up like 
potatoes, as is done by some, or basins be 
scooped out round them, as recommended by 
others, the result will be an abundant crop on 
most soils. About midsummer, or shortly 
afterwards, they may be pulled and allowed to 
ripen in the sun for a few days, and then stored 
away for use. A good plan, where room is 
scarce, is to have them tied up in ropes, as 
onions are often exposed for sale in London, 
and they then occupy very little room, and 
will keep well until February or March, if 
placed in a dry cold situation. 
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We have before entered upon the subject of 
plant supporters of a more natural and tasty 
shape than the unmeaning things which have 
been so long in use by even good gardeners. 
Plants of great interest have been displayed 
upon round shields, as uncouth as a round 
pillar-and-claw table turned up, displaying no- 
thing approaching to nature, or art, about them. 
