A General Treatise of Husbandry

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1726 edition. Excerpt: ... our Onions to last long in Kitchin-Use; but if we design to gather good Seed from them, the above Directions may take place. Now, when we have taken this Care of the Seed, let us consider, from a preceding Argument, that we must sow it as soon as the Earth begins to retake its Power of acting upon Vegetables of this kind. My Relation will inform you, that the greatest Success was by.putting in the Onion-Seed in Februarys as soon as the, Weather was open; and it has heen my constant Rule never to sow the Seeds of any Bulbous-Root later in the Spring of the Year; And k is no less certain, that an Qnion is so much a Balb, that all Bulbous, Rgots are stil'd Onion-Rooted Plants. I find, that if I sow any of this sort of Seed later than February, rny Seed? are in'danger of being lost, either by Vermin in their tender Stae; or by mixture of Weather, toO'rough'for themi when they first appear above.Ground, or. else? by a too dry Season, which, is common, iff March, so that the Seed does not come u at all. 1 '-i-A.-l.t:, The Land which is commonly chosen for t%i$ Purpose is a generosis, Loam. which;js suppos'd to consist.of ab, out eqpal, Parts Sand and Qay j:, .aitd even? though-thip Soil is more generally inclin'd: t0 assist Vegetables than any other, yet it is thought by some to require a largQ. Quantity of Manure or Dung, to make it agreeable to the Vegetation of Onions: But from my own Observation I find that thjs Loam of it self, without the. Charge of Dungj brings Onions as large and as'good as the dung'd Ground: This I observ'd in some. Gardens where; the People told pat they never had apply'd. any, Manure, to the Land, but what they had now and then taken out of.the Ditches, and the Drift Sand 4)f the High-ways. In.