Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . Tier. 58. -POTATC )N. VEGETABLES PARSLEY. 217 Potato Onions, or Multipliers, are the best of allfor family use. They are grown by planting the smallbulbs, early in spring, in rows 1 foot apart, by 4 or 5 inchesin the row, and cultivated otherwise as described for thosegrown from sets. The increase is formed by the bulb, asit grows, splitting up and dividing into six or eight bulbs>these forming the crop when at maturity in August. Top5 or Tree Onion*—Has a bulb in size and general appearance simila
Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . Tier. 58. -POTATC )N. VEGETABLES PARSLEY. 217 Potato Onions, or Multipliers, are the best of allfor family use. They are grown by planting the smallbulbs, early in spring, in rows 1 foot apart, by 4 or 5 inchesin the row, and cultivated otherwise as described for thosegrown from sets. The increase is formed by the bulb, asit grows, splitting up and dividing into six or eight bulbs>these forming the crop when at maturity in August. Top5 or Tree Onion*—Has a bulb in size and general appearance similar to the Po»tato Onion, but is propagatedby the singular production ofa cluster of small bulbs inplace of flowers. These resem-ble a cluster of hazel nuts,and by them it propagatesvery rapidly. It is grown toa considerable extent, in someplaces, as an early marketsort, sold green; when ripe,it must be used early in theseason, as it does not keep well in winter. The plantingand subsequent culture is the same as for other Fi<r. 59.—top onion. PARSLEY.—(Petroselinum sativum.)A vegetable in more general use for garnishing than anyother plant of our gardens; it is also extensively used insoups, stews, etc. Its cultivation forms quite an import-ant item in market gardens, particularly under glass. 218 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. The manner of cultivating it thus is by sowing it be-tween the rows of a growing crop of Lettuce in our coldframes, in April. As it is slow to germinate, it only ap-pears at the time the Lettuce is cut off in May. It is thencleared from weeds, hoed, and forms a growth fit to cut amonth before that sown in the open ground. After thefirst cutting has been made, in June, it is generally so lowin price as not to be worth marketing, so it is allowed togrow through the summer until the first week in Septem-ber, when it is cut off close to the ground and thrownaway, as it is rarely wanted at this season. It is againhoed, and as at this time it makes a sh
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