. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. 1532. A multipl ported Spanish are really nothing more than thesehome-grown bulbs of the Prizetaker variety, and thebuyer is not the loser by any means. This Prizetakeris perhaps the best of this class of Onions to be grownby the transplanting process at the present time —large,of g
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. 1532. A multipl ported Spanish are really nothing more than thesehome-grown bulbs of the Prizetaker variety, and thebuyer is not the loser by any means. This Prizetakeris perhaps the best of this class of Onions to be grownby the transplanting process at the present time —large,of good shape, perhaps a little darker in color than theimported Spanish, and its equal in mildness of newer Gibraltar is still larger, milder, a little later. 1138 ONION not as good a keeper, but altogether one of the bestOnions which the home grower, as well as the market-gardener who can sell his crop before late fall and atgood prices, could produce. Start the plants under glass (preferably in green-house) during January or February, sowing seed rather. thickly in drills an inch and a half or two inches apart,and using about an ounce of seed to ten square feet ofbed surface. The soil should be sandy and very the plants in good growth, and as soon as the patchoutdoors can be properly prepared in spring, set theseedlings in rows about 14 inches apart, and from 3 to 4inches apart in the rows. Little hand-weeding will benecessary, but the wheel-hoe should be used freely. Wealso grow a portion of our green or bunching Onions inthis way. For that purpose the plants are set moreclosely in the rows, say not over 2 inches apart. Seedof the Prizetaker is mostly grown in the United States,while that of the Gibraltar is as yet all imported. T. GBErNER. Commercial Onion Culture in the North.—Soil. —the soil should be a rich, moist, but not wet,loam with a subsoil of clay, or close compact sandy loam,not coarse gravel, as that lets the water leach out tooquickly. O
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