246 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Mar. 1900 
Luex.—tThis favourite vegetable should be sown in a seed bed, and ue ; 
about 4 inches high the young plants should be planted out in i | 
prepared as for celery, and earthed up in the same way. The larger the }@ 
the finer the flavour. They may also be planted out in rich ground, and shi 
earthed up, and thus grown are useful for flavouring, but for exhibition ¥ 
possible to grow fine specimens in the first-mentioned way. Most gro 
shorten back the leaves a little when planting, and once or twice afterwaTd® 
have, however, known first-prize leeks to be grown without this. Mussel bute 
and London Flag are good sorts. One ounce of seed will be enough. 4 
Lerruce.—The Cos or upright lettuce finds most favour on exhibit 
tables, at least mn England. The head should be large and solid, fresh, te?®)’ 
crisp; the leaves should have considerable substance, and when broken 0 sis 
juice should exude freely. This salad requires to be sown frequently a 
climate, where the growth is rapid—every three or four weeks. Sow 10 st 
bed thinly, and when fit to handle plant out into rows about 15 me ov | 
apart and 12 inches from plant to plant in the rows. You can ale ’ 
very thinly in rows, and thin out to about 12 inches apart, wi?) | 
transplanting. It requires a rich, fertile soil. When the plants are fairly we | 
advanced, tie a soft piece of bast or other material around the leaves, 5° an 7 
draw them together. This blanches the heart and greatly improves the "> 
About 30z. may be reckoned a fair allowance for a garden of 1 A 
Lettuce in the seed bed should always be kept well watered and grow? ) | 
without a check, and when planted out will be the better of occas! 
waterings with liquid manure. Good varieties are:—Neapolitan Cab | 
Iceberg, and Drumhead, of the Cabbage varieties ; and of the Cos sorts,*" | 
White Cos and Paris Green Cos. 
Musrarp.—-This useful salad may be grown like cress, frequen 
being made. 
Onton.—These require well-drained, rich, loamy land, thoroughly well a 
deeply worked. A good quantity of manure should be thoroughly worke 
A good dressing of a mixture of salt and soot may with great advantagy | 
forked lightly into the land before planting. Sow in rich beds, and Vs | } 
a few inches high transplant into rows about 9 inches apart and 16 i ni 
between the rows. Do not plant deeply so as to cover the bulb, which § 
form on the surface of the ground. You can also sow thinly in drills abou fact 
inches apart, and thin out to 8 inches between the plants. Dress the a at 
with salt and soot, and stir in with a hoe when rain is likely after your Jants yal 
large enough to thin. You can transplant the thinnings to other beds et 
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choose. Always in sowing onions make your seed beds firm and cov dec? | 
thinly. When sowing in drills avoid the mistake of making the drills | 
You can sow at frequent intervals all the year to procure young onioMs | 
flavourings, soups, and salads. About 8 oz. of seed will set you up. er | 
The varieties chiefly grown and stocked by colonial seedsmen are i Biot ‘ 
Spanish, White Spanish, James Keeping, Giant Rocca, and Silver Ska 
pickling). 
Pansyrps.—This really splendid and nutritious vegetable one does 
nearly so much in use as could be wished. I remember as a lad scoring ® 1.5 
success with some parsnips grown for exhibition at the International Bx! 
held at Dublin some time in the early seventies. I forget where I recelve", | 
idea, but I have never seen the method since, nor, for the matter 9 o) 
such good parsnips. A piece of moderately rich, extremely well and deol | 
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trenched ground was chosen, and in this, at distances of about 18 inches "Fije | 
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holes were driven down with an iron crowbar, which was worked about WY it 
diameter of the hole at the top was about 9 or 10 inches, and the depth * 4, | 
2 feet 6 inches. These holes were filled with an extremely rich, fine ¢o™ od | 
made up as if for potting purposes, with rich loam, leaf mould (finely 414 
thoroughly rotted manure, and bonemeal—in short, the most easily ass} 
compost which could be thought of. This was rammed into the holes moder t 
firmly, and in the centre were sown three or four selected seed. “When thes® 
