Abstract
A NEW bulletin (No. 69) recently issued by the Ministry of Agriculture (H.M. Stationery Office, Is.) deals with onions and related crops. Considering that more than 90 per cent of the onions consumed in Great Britain are purchased from abroad at an annual cost of nearly 2 million pounds, it is evident that this is an instance of a crop which could with advantage be much more extensively grown in this country. The acreage devoted to onion growing in England and Wales has seriously declined since 1913, the reduction in some instances amounting to 50 or even 75 per cent. The soil in many parts of the country is eminently suited to the crop, and although a certain degree of skill is required in cultivation, manuring, harvesting and storing, there seems no reason why onion production should not be substantially in creased. Besides the wealth of practical information provided in the bulletin, interesting comparisons are drawn between the methods of cultivation employed in the principal onion-growing countries such as Spain, Holland, Egypt and the United States, and the respective seasons at which then produce is imported into Great Britain.
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Cultivation of Onions. Nature 134, 660 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134660a0
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