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frequently, and the ground kept loose around them. In dig 
ging them for use, care should be taken to gathei them out 
clean, as the least particle left will grow the year following, 
and encumber the ground, without producing a crop worth 
standing. 
LEEK. 
Poirreau. Allium porrum. 
VARIETIES. 
Scotch, or Flag. | Large London 
This is a wholesome and useful herb, and is so hardy as 
to endure the extremes of heat and cold without injury. The 
seed may be sown in March, or early in April, in a bed of 
rich earth, in drills about an inch deep, and a sufficient dis 
tance apart to admit of a small hoe being worked between 
the rows, allowing one ounce of seed for every three thou- 
sand plants that may be required. 
If the ground be kept loose and clean around the plants, 
they will be fit to transplant in June, or early in July, and 
should be set out in good ground, in rows twelve inches 
asunder, and the plants five or six inches apart in the rows. 
They will grow well in a warm border, which at this season 
is useless for many kinds of vegetables. After the plants have 
taken root, they should be frequently hoed, and kept free 
from weeds. 
Those who wish to have Leeks blanched, may plant them 
in trenches three or four inches deep, and as the plants in- 
crease in growth, the earth should be drawn by a hoe into 
the trenches, 
