. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMERICAN HOME GAKDEN. 157 with, safety, being perfectly hardy after they once sprout. In New York, sow during March and April. POEMS OP ONIONS. Vie- a. Inferior Globe Onion, running to illicit neck. b. Flat liareripe, or early Onion. c. Common flat Union. d. Best form of Onion. The varieties of onion arc numerous, and the names still more numerous than
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. AMERICAN HOME GAKDEN. 157 with, safety, being perfectly hardy after they once sprout. In New York, sow during March and April. POEMS OP ONIONS. Vie- a. Inferior Globe Onion, running to illicit neck. b. Flat liareripe, or early Onion. c. Common flat Union. d. Best form of Onion. The varieties of onion arc numerous, and the names still more numerous than the varieties. The names desifrnatina; color are abundantly sufficient to distinguish the desirable kinds, form being entirely secondary, and readily changeable by the care or carelessness of the cultivator. In general it may he remarked that a good form for a com- mon turnip is a good form for an onion. See Fig. 80, p. 18(3. Common red, number one, is an onion of the best C[uality, being milder and sweeter than the others, but the white and yellow are prefeiTed where the discoloration produced in cook- ing by the former is regarded as a serious objection to its use. The yellow may generally be kept for use later in the spring than cither the red or white. The gi'ound upon which onions are to be raised should be light and rich, having been used for some clean crop, or for onions, the previous season ; and if, after the gromid is prepared, straw or rubbish is spread evenly upon it and burned, it will destroy to some extent those weed-seeds which would be most troublesome, and afford a good top-dressing for the young crop. After the biu-ning, the seed should be sown in drills one foot apart and half an inch deep, and carefully raked in. If the soil be very light, a gentle pressure upon the surface, either by the back of the rake or other means, will be found to set the earth about the seed and promote its prompt vegetation. After. Please note that these images are extracted from
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