. 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. 1529. The new-time Onion field. a compound bulb like tliat from which it came. Some- times flower-stalks are produced from multiplier or potato Onions. The best results with multipliers are secured when the bulbels are separated on being planted, for each one has room in which to grow. Two or three kinds of mul
. 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. 1529. The new-time Onion field. a compound bulb like tliat from which it came. Some- times flower-stalks are produced from multiplier or potato Onions. The best results with multipliers are secured when the bulbels are separated on being planted, for each one has room in which to grow. Two or three kinds of multiplier Onions are known, the variation being chiefly in the color of the bulb. Onion sets are merely ordinary Onions which are arrested m their growth, and when planted will resume giowth They are grown from seed. The seed is sown ^ev^^ thick on rather poor land, so that the young bulbs soon reach the possibilities of their growth: they mature when still very small. These small bulbs or sets are then harvested and kept over winter, and used for planting the follow- ing spring. When planted they grow rapidly and may be pulled and used for the table. ; If allowed to remain in the ground, they send up flower-stalks and produce seeds, as common Onions do. Sets are not allowed to seed, however, since the seeds from sets viould probably produce an inferior race of Onions. Any variety of seed-bearing Onion may be grown and propagated as sets, al- though there are relatively few that give uni- formly good results. In tlie trade, Onion sets are usu- ally designated as yellow, red or white. In order to secure good results from Onion sets, it is essential that the sets be small and firm. They should not be over one-half inch in diameter, if they are of the best. If they are much larger than this, they tend to run to seed rather than to produce bulbs. Sometimes the very small and inferior Onions are saved from the regular crop and are used as sets the following spring. Such sets are gener
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