. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . wing them tospread over the surface of theground. When the crop is readyto be harvested, the bulbs maybe pulled or cultivated up, left todry in double rows for severaldays, the tops and roots takenoff, and the bulbs stored in a dryplace. Later in the season theymay be allowed to freeze, cover-ing with chaff or straw to holdthem frozen, and kept until earlyspring; but this method is usually 31°- Bunch onions, grown from seed,unsafe with beginners, and always s
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . wing them tospread over the surface of theground. When the crop is readyto be harvested, the bulbs maybe pulled or cultivated up, left todry in double rows for severaldays, the tops and roots takenoff, and the bulbs stored in a dryplace. Later in the season theymay be allowed to freeze, cover-ing with chaff or straw to holdthem frozen, and kept until earlyspring; but this method is usually 31°- Bunch onions, grown from seed,unsafe with beginners, and always so in a changeable climate. Onionseed should always be fresh when sown—preferably of the last yearscrop. One ounce of onion seed will sow 100 feet of drill. One of the recent methods of securing extra large and also earlybulbs from seed is to sow the seed in a hotbed in February or earlyMarch, and transplant to the open ground in April. A bunch of onions,for eating from hand, is shown in Fig. 310. The Dan vers, Prizetaker, Globe, and Wethersfield are favorite va-rieties, with the addition of White Queen or Barletta for 490 MANUAL OF GARDENING Parsley. — This is the most universal of garnishes. It is used also as a flavoring in soups. The seed is slow to germinate, and often* the second or third sowing is made, thinking the first is a failure; but usually after what wouldseem a long time the young plants will beseen. When sown in the open ground, itshould be thinned to stand 3 or 4 inches inthe row, the rows being 10 to 12 inchesapart. A few plants in a border will give asupply for a large family, and with a littleprotection will live over winter. Roots may be lifted in the fall, put intoboxes or old cans, and grown in a sunnywindow for winter use. The Curled pars-ley is the form commonly used.
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