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Garden Work 
Another way to plant Leeks is to draw the ordinary 
soil round them, placing a drain pipe vertically between 
each pair of plants, to facilitate feeding with liquid manure. 
The pipes are necessary on account of the base of the soil 
being broad in order to get sufficient height. In this 
method, boards are not required, but it is not such a 
good way of blanching as the one previously mentioned, 
and should not be adopted where boards and leaf mould 
can be obtained. It will be some considerable time before 
any feeding is necessary, but careful watch will be required 
to detect any falling off in the regular growth, and then 
liquid manure should be applied to keep the plants growing 
rapidly. Liquid manure from the farmyard tanks may be 
used, or cow manure may be put into a barrel and the 
barrel filled with water, stirred up, and then allowed to 
settle, and the liquid used. Other kinds of artificial manures 
are Canary Guano, Clay’s Fertilizer, Thompson’s Vine 
Plant and Vegetable Manure, &c. They may be used 
once or twice a week, in the proportion of i oz. to i gall, 
of water. 
Leeks for exhibition must be perfect in shape, colour, 
&c. Care must therefore be exercised, when earthing up, 
not to twist or push them to one side, thus causing them 
to be misshapen and crooked. They must also be perfect 
at the bottom, not showing the slightest formation of a 
bulb. 
Varieties — 
Dobbie’s International. Prize. 
Sutton’s Prize-taker. 
The Lyon. 
Musselburgh. 
