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Show ACT NOW IF YOU WANT FINE ONIONS NEXT SPRING A contributor tolls as follows how to prepare In August for fine onions noxt spring: "I hme takon pains to bring ny new mothod of growing choicest, sweetest greon onions to tho attention of pro grcsslvo gardeners. Yet it Is only now and then that I find this mothod In practice. Most gardeners' still stick to the expensive, clumsy method of planting plant-ing sets, either In fall or more often In spring "Again I must urge my frlendR to try at loast a little patch of the White Portugal Port-ugal (Sllvcrskln). About August 1st sow seed rather thickly (an ounce to ISO feet of row) Into jvery rich, clean, strong loam. Have the rows a foot apart, and keep frco from weeds till tho end of the season. "No winter protection Is need. Thcso , plants start into strong growth early In spring and In May and June (long before you can expect to have greon onions from sets planted In early spring) yon will havo tho most delicious snow-white little onions Imaginable I havo ner failed for many years to have these erccrv or bunching oplons In great abundinw overy spring." |