. 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. Gardening. 113G ON and tliiril thinniiit,s m n I loJO Itii\erj iiupoitaut be used, for the Ouiou dtt which ifs not well grown no ONION Kit from ^. 1528 The Globe, and these are also to be advised for the main reliance in the home garden. For early use and for variety, great numbers of kinds may be selected from reliable s
. 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. Gardening. 113G ON and tliiril thinniiit,s m n I loJO Itii\erj iiupoitaut be used, for the Ouiou dtt which ifs not well grown no ONION Kit from ^. 1528 The Globe, and these are also to be advised for the main reliance in the home garden. For early use and for variety, great numbers of kinds may be selected from reliable seed catalogues. Some of the quick-growing southern Onions are excellent for early use. There are two general methods of propagating the Onion—by seeds and by bulbs. Onion seed is ordinarily known as "black seed," although there is no Onion seed which is not black. The main field crop is grown from seeds, as explained in the articles which follow. The Onion seed of the market is produced from full grown and typical bulbs of the desired variety. These bulbs are grown from seed and are kept over winter as other Onions are. In the spring they are planted out in rows two feet apart and as near together in the row as they will stand. Tliev send up a flower stalk which blooms In early summer,' the scnl is Propagation by is irii|(il fur tlie purpose of securing early Onions fur humc use ur for the special early-season tradi-. lentil witiiin rci-int years, all the very early or bunch Onions were raised from bulbs, but recently a so-called "new Onion culture" has come into vogue, which consists in sowing seeds in hotbeds or coldframes and transplanting the young plants. Bulb- propagation is of three general categories: (1} The use of bulblets or "top Onions" which appear on the top of the flower-stalk in the place of flowers; (2) the use of bulbels or separable parts of an Onion bulb, known as "multipliers," or &quo
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