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Show CE CE fhould therefore, before their Necks or Blades are wither’doff, draw themout of the Ground, which is Seeds, cropping off the extreme Part ofthe Blade, and lay them abroad upon a cry Spot of Ground to dry, obferving to turn them over every other Day, at leaft, to prevent their purajcentibus. C. * vulgé. ¥; ae 3. Cera; vulgaris, flribus & tunicis candidis. C.B. The white Spanifh Onion ; vulgé. 4. Cera; Afcalonica; Matthioli. Boerh. Ind. The Scallion or Efcallion. ftriking frefh Root into the Ground; which they will fuddenly do, efpecially in moift Weather. In about a Fortnight’s Time your Onions will be dry enough to houfe, which mutft be perform’d in perfect dry Weather: In doing of this, you mult carefully rub off all the 5. Cera ; Jedfilis, juncifolia, perennis, M. H. Earth, and be fure to mix no faulty ones amongft them, which will in a fborc time Cives. 6. Cupa; feéfilis, major, perennis. Welfh decay, and fpoil all thofe that lie near them; Onion; vulgé. nor fhould you lay them too thick in the x 7. Cera; fifcilis Matthioli. Lugd. Ciboule. There are feveral other Sorts of Onions of leffer Note, whichare preferv’din the Gardens of curious Botanifts, fome of which grow wild in England: But thefe above-mention’d are the Sorts which are chiefly cultivated for the Houfe, which would occafion their {weating, and thereby rot them: Thefe fhould not be put in a lower Room, or Ground-floor, but in a Loft or Garret; and the clofer they are kept from the Air the better they will keep: You fhould at leaft once a Month look over Kitchen Ufe. The three Sorts firft mention’d them tofee if any of them are decay’d; whi-h are propagated for Winter Ufe, their Roots if youfind, muft be immediately taken away, being preferved dry during that Seafon. Of otherwife they will infeét all that lie near thefe I fhall firft treat. Thefe three Sorts of Oxions are propagated by Seeds, which fthould be fown atthe Latterend of Februa or the Beginning of March, in good rich fandy Ground (but not too thick5 the common Quantity of Seed allow’dto fow an Acre of Ground being eight Pounds) in about a Month or fix Weeks.after fowing, the Onions will be up forward enough to hoe; at which Time(chufing dry Weather) you fhould with a fmall hoe about two Inches andan half broad, cut up lightly all the Weeds from them. The beft Onions for keeping are the Siras burgh kind, whichis an oval-fhap’d Bulb; bu this feldomgrows fo large as the Spani/b, > which is flatter: The white Sort is efteem’dthe fweet- eft, but thefe Varieties are not lafting, for if you fave Seeds of white Onions only, youwill have a Mixtureofthe red ones amongft them; nor will the Sirafburgh Onion keep long to its Kind, but will by degrees grow flatter, as do the large Portugal Onions, when planted in out Climate, which, in a Year or two, will befo amongft the Oyions; as alfo cutting out the far degenerated as not to be knowntheywere Onions where they grow too clofe in Bunches, Jeaving them at this firlt hoeing two Inches fromthat Race. apart: This, if well perform’d, and in a dry the Spring make Choice of fome of the firmelt, But, in order to preferve Seeds, you mutt in Seafon, will preferve the Spot clear of Weeds, largett, and oval-fhap’d Onions, (in Quantity at Jeaft a Month, at which Time you muft proportionable to the Seed youintendto fave) and having prepar’d a Piece of good Ground, hoe them over a fecond time, cutting up all the Weeds, as before, and alfo cutting out the Onions to a larger Diftance, leaving themthis time three Inches afunder. This alfo, if well perform’d, will preferve the Ground clean a Month longer, when you muft hoe them over the third and laft time. You muft nowcarefully cut upall Weeds, and fingle out the Ovions to near four Inches fquare ; by which means they will grow much larger than if left too clofe. This Time of Hoéing, if the Weather proves dry, andit was well perform’d, will keep the Groundclean until the Onions are fit to pullup: But if the Weather fhould prove moift, and any of the Weeds fhould take Root again, youfhould, about a Fortnight or three Weeks after, go over the Spot, and draw out all the large Weeds with your Hands ; for the Onions haveing now begun to bulb, they fhould not be difturb’d with a Hoe. . Toward the Middle or Latter-end of July your Onions will have arriv’d to their full Growth, which may be known, bytheir Blades falling to the Ground and fhrinking; you (which fhouldbe well dug, and laid out in Beds about three Feet wide) in the Beginning of March you muft plant your Ox in the following manner: Having ftrain’d a Line about four Inches within the Side of the Bed, you muft with a Spade, throw outan Opening about fix Inches deep the Length ofthe Bed, into which you fhouldplace the Oxions, with their Roots downward, at about fix Inches Diftance from each other; then with a Rake drawthe Earth into the Opening again to cover the Bulbs; then proceed to remove the Line again about ten Inches or a Foot farther back, where you muft make an Opening as before, andfo again, till the Whole is finifh’d, fo that you will have four Rows in each Bed, between which you muft allow a Space of two Feet for an Alley to go amongft themto clea from Weeds, €&c. Ina Month’s Time the Bulbs will appear above-ground, many of which will produce three or four S s each, you muft therefore keep them diligently cl from Weeds, and about the Beginning of| when the Heads of the Seed begin to err CTE CE upon the Tops of the Stalks, you muft pro~ and are therefore onlyfit to be us’d green fot Sallads, &c. They are fown about the End of Guly, in Beds of about three Feet and a half wide, leaving Alleys of two Feet broad to go ———<—$—$—$<— vide a Parcel of Stakes about four Feet long, which fhould be drove into. the Ground, in the Rows of Ozious, at about fix Feet apart, to which you fhould faften’ {ome Packthread, or {mall Cord, which fhould be run on cach Side the Stems of the Onions a little below cir Heads, to (upport them from breaking down with the Wind and Rain. About the Beginning of Augu/t the Oxion- between the Beds to clean them, and in a Fortnight’s Time they will appear aboveground, and muft be carefully cleard from Weeds ; towards the Middie of Offober, their Blades will die away, fo that the whole Sj-ot will feem to be naked, which hath led many Seeds are contain’d opening, fo that if it be People to dig up the Ground again, fuppefing the Croptotally loft; whereas it they are jet ftand undifturb’d theywill come up again very ftrong in Fanuary, and from that time grow very vigoronfly, refilling all Weathers, and they fhould be {pread abroad upon coarfe by March will be fit to draw for young Oxtons, and are, in the Markets, more valu’d than under Shelter in the Night, as alfo in wet any other Sort at that Seafon, for they are ex~ tremely green and fin@tho’ they are much ftronger than the common ‘Qzion, in Tafte, approaching nearer to Garlick, which hath occafion’d their being lefs efteem’d for the Seed will be ripe, which may be known byits changing brown, and the Cells in which the not cut in a fhort time the Seeds will fall to the Ground: When you cut off the Heads, Cloaths in the Sun, obferving to take it in Weather ; and when the Heads are quite.dry, out the Seeds, which are vety re’d from their Cells; then haveng leat’d it from all the Husk, Oc. after sos'd it one Dayto the Sun to dry, put it up in Bags to preferve it for which never forms any Bulbs at the Roots, and is chiefly ufed in the Spring for green before the other Sorts fown in Fuly ) are big enough; but this Sort of Oxion, how much foever in ufe formerly, is now fo {carce as to be knownto few People, and is rarely to be met with except in curious Botanick Table: But as no Winter, however fo hard, will hurt them, fo it is proper to have a few of them to fupply the Table, in cafe the commonSort fhould be deflroy’d by Frofts. The Roots of thefe Onions, if planted out at fix or eight Inches Diflance in Aturch, will produce ripe Seeds in Au:umn, but ’twill be in {mall Quantities the firft Year; therefore the fame Roots fhould remain unremoy’d, which the fecondand third Year will produce Gardens: The Gardeners near London {ublti- many Stems, and afford a good Supply of Seeds: Thefe Roots will abide manyYears Onions which decay andfprout in the Houle: fe theyplant in a Bed earlyin the Spring, which in a fhort time will grow to be large every fecond or third Year, which will caufe the Root, they tie them up in Bunches, and fel] them in the Market for Scadions: This Sort is eafily propagated by parting carry d the Cherry-Tree from thence to Romes tute another Sort for this, which are thofe enough for Ufe: When they draw them up, andafterpulling offall the old outer Coat of the Roots, either in Spring or Autumn, but the latter Seafon is preferable, becaufe of their ender’d more fit for Ufe in the Spring: Thefe Roots fhould be planted three or four together in a Hole, at about, fix Inches Di- good, but fhould be tranfplanted and parted themto produce ttrong Seeds, CERASUS ; [focall’d of Cerafms, a City of Pentus, which Lucullus having deflroy’d, he andcall’d it Cerafm, after the Nume of the City.] The Cherry-Tree. The Charatters are ; exceedingly, and will grow upon almoft any It hath large fhining Leaves; the Fruit grows on long Pedicles (or Footftalks) and is voundib or heavrt-(bap’d; the Stone fhort, tumid, and roundib. The Species are ; 1. Cerasus; fativa, fruflu rotundo, rubro acido. Tourn. The common Red, or Garden which never produces any Bulbs, nor feldom aloo. ftance every Way, in Beds or Borders three Feet wide, which in a fhort time will multiply Soil and in anySituation; and their being fo Cherry. 2. Cerasus; fativa, frultu majori. Tourn. hardyas'to refift the fevereft of our Winters, andbeing green and fit for Ufe fo early in the Large Spanifh Cherry. 3. Cerasus; major, fr Spring, renders them worthyofa Place inall rubro. The Red Heart Cherry good Kitchen-Gardens. 4. Cerasus ; major, frulu magn The Cives are a very fmall Sort of Onion, The White Heare Cherry. 5. Cr RASUS , MmUjOr, jrucinz m 1gn0, cordato, grows above fix Inches high in the Blade, ich is very fmall andflender, and grows in Sanguineo. The Beeding Heart Cherry. like the former: This was formerly queft for Salads in the Spring, as vhat milder than thofe Onions ftood through the Winter: Thefe ated by parting their Roots like are allo very hardy, and wiil é early in the Spring. a > only propagated for never make any Buib, 6. Cerasus; mujor, fructu cordaso, nigio. The Black Heart Ci y 7. Cexasus; Muialis, fiullu duvo, fubduli, Tourn. The Mary Cherry. 8. Cerasus ; mujor, ac filvefiris, frnbu | du!cis, wigro color ciente. C. B. The Black Cherry, or Mazz 9. Cexasus; f “u magno, rubro turbinato Tourn. Whe Archduke-Cherry. Mm 10, CERA= |
