As a choice for the home-garden, Mr. Henderson recommends the
following varieties of onions: Extra Early Red, Yellow Globe
Danvers, White Portugal or Silver Skin, and Southport Yellow
Globe. Mr. Joseph Harris, the well-known and practical author:
Yellow Danvers, Extra Early Large Bed, and White Globe. Mr. J. J.
H. Gregory: New Queen, Early Yellow Acker, Yellow Danvers, Early
Red Globe Danvers, Large Red Wethersfield. They all recommend
onion sets. The Queen onion is quite distinct. For the home table,
where earliness, as well as quality, size and quantity is desired,
I think the Queen deserves a place. It is admirably fitted for
pickling. I have tried all the varieties named, with good success,
and grown some of the largest kinds to six inches in diameter.
CHAPTER IX
THE KITCHEN-GARDEN (concluded)
In the last chapter I dwelt somewhat at length on two vegetables
for which thorough and enduring preparation is profitable. There
is one other very early garden product which requires our
attention during the first warm days of spring--rhubarb; sold in
some instances under the name of "wine-plant." Wine is made from
the juicy stalks, but it is an unwholesome beverage. The people
call rhubarb "pie-plant;" and this term suggests its best and most
common use, although when cooked as if it were a fruit, it is very
grateful at a season when we begin to crave the subacid in our
food.
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