NEW 
ONI 
orange, and deep red; melting, and 
of tolerably good flavour; the leaves 
are serrated. 
Violette Hative. Emit large, and fine 
flavoured, pale green, and red ; ripens 
from the end of August to the begin¬ 
ning of September. Elesh melting; 
leaves crenated with reniform glands. 
This and the Elruge are frequently 
confounded; they may, however, be 
easily known by the flesh ; that of the 
Violette Hative is remarkable for the 
deep red rays which proceed from the 
stone towards the outer part of the 
fruit, while the flesh of the Elruge 
is pale green almost throughout. Syn. 
Aromatic, Brinion, Brugnon Hatif, 
Brugnon Bed at the Stone, Early 
Violet, Early Brugnon, Hampton 
Court, Large Scarlet, Lord Selsey’s 
Elruge, New Scarlet, Petite Violette 
Hative, Violet, Violet Musk, Violet 
Bed at the Stone, Violette d’Anger- 
villieres. 
NEW ZEALAND SPINACH. Te- 
tragonia expansa (W illdenow .) N. Ord. 
Ficoidete. This is a useful esculent fit 
for the table through the summer months, 
when it forms an excellent substitute* 
for the common spinach, which, as is 
well known, occasions much trouble to 
maintain a good supply in consequence 
of its habit of running to seed in hot 
weather. The New Zealand Spinach 
should be sown in March, in a gentle 
heat, in order to have strong plants to 
turn into the ground in the following 
May, where, if it is well supplied with 
water, it will grow rapidly, each plant 
spreading as much as five or six feet, 
and affording an abundance of leaves, 
which are to be gathered and used as 
spinach. 
ONION. Allium Cepa (Linn.) Nat, 
Ord. Tiiliacece. The culture of these 
useful roots is so well understood that we 
need not enlarge on it. The seed should 
be sown in March for the principal crop, 
on rich friable soil that has been pre¬ 
viously well pulverised, and, for the 
convenience of thinning and securing a 
regular crop, it is advisable to sow in 
drills eight inches apart, and when the 
plants are two or three inches high, 
they should be thinned to about the 
same distance one from another; if this 
is done with a hoe, care must be taken 
that those which remain have not the 
earth drawn about them, as this prevents 
their bulbing. Keeping them clear of 
weeds is all the attention required till 
September, when they will have attained 
their full size, and may be harvested: 
they should be pulled up, and after 
lying a week on the ground, if the 
weather is dry, they will be in a fit state 
for storing against the winter. These 
roots will last till about the following 
April, and to succeed them, a sowing 
should be made in August upon a dry 
warm border, and if the small plants 
resulting therefrom are removed to a 
piece of good ground in March, they 
will form large handsome bulbs by June, 
or the Tripoli, treated in this way, will 
be fit for use by May, but does not keep 
more than a few weeks. The thinnings 
from these afford good salad onions early 
in spring, and those withdrawn from the 
principal crops may be used in the same 
way at a later period. The potato onion 
is remarkable for reproducing itself by 
means of offsets; the roots should be 
planted in spring, and they will require 
harvesting in the manner of the other 
kinds. The tree onion, instead of having 
offsets at the base of the stem, as with 
the preceding, bears them at the top 
among, or instead of the umbel of flowers, 
these require the treatment of the potato 
onion. The Welsh and two-bladed 
onions, have scarcely any bulbs, but are 
grown for salads only, as they are hardy 
and fit for use before the others. The 
large Lisbon and Spanish onions should 
always be sown in autumn, as our sum¬ 
mers are scarcely long enough for them 
to arrive to the size and perfection they 
will otherwise attain, but grown on good 
soil in the manner described, they will 
become as large as those imported. 
The following sorts are most usually 
grown. 
Blood, Bed. Large, round, deep red, 
rather strong flavour; keeps till 
March. 
