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Show Onion Culture In ICliKliuid. Tho following culture directions for raising a prize crop of onions are given iu Garden and Forest by its English correspondent: cor-respondent: "The soil is a heavy blackish loam, resting on rod clay, and it receives a tremendous dressing of stuble manure in tho month of ( )etober, and, if the weather is dry, a good coat of salt; tho ground is then trenched two feet deep, and left until the spring, when a top-dressing of soot is applied. In March or April the ground is raked and made ready to roceivo the onions, tho seed of which was sown tho last week in February, in boxes, then hardened off, and planted the first week in May, in drills eighteen inches opart, seven inches being allowed from plant to plant. There are two rows of onions, then a path two feet wide and two rows of onions again, and so on. The beds are top-dressed with well-spent well-spent manure, and several doses of soot are sown broadcast during the season; the beds being well watered in dry weather, thoroughly soaked between the rows, the two-foot pain, between each two drills being very convenient for the purpose. This method of cultivation culti-vation produced the finest bed of onions ever grown in the United Kingdom. Hundreds of bulbs could bo picked weighing from a pound to a pound and a half each, and scores from two pounds to 2 pounds a dozen bulbs scaled 28 pounds, and six bulbs 15 pounds. Am. Agriculturist. |