ONIONS AND OLIVES

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ONIONS AND OLIVESTo-day we planted our onion seed, saved from last year's Ailsa Craigs. The tall stalks with their round shaggy heads of seed were wrapped in a paper bag last fall and hung, heads down, in the basement. When I brought them up and spread a big paper on the kitchen table, I felt quite sure the bottom of the bag would contain the black seeds with their irregular, triangular shapes. But the seeds at the bottom of the bag were few in number, and examination showed the husks had held the seeds quite tightly. So I put on a pair of gloves and started to rub the heads, and found it was not so easy. Onion seeds are tough, black-hearted-like things that hang on to their last place of residence.... I blew the chaff, but the seeds flew all over. I got the rolling-pin and bore down heav

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