SHALLOT  , See also:

• ALLIUM (Lat. for " garlic ")

Allium ascalonicum, a See also:

• HARDY, ALEXANDRE (1569?-1631)
• HARDY, SIR THOMAS DUFFUS (1804-1878)
• HARDY, SIR THOMAS MASTERMAN
• HARDY, THOMAS (1840- )

hardy bulbous perennial, which has not been certainly found See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild and is regarded by A. de See also:

• CANDOLLE, AUGUSTIN PYRAME DE (1778—1841)

Candolle as probably a modification of A . Cepa, dating from about the beginning of the See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian era (Origin of Cultivated See also:

• PLANTS

Plants, p . 71) . It is extensively cultivated and is much used in See also:

• COOKERY (Lat. coquus, a cook)

cookery, besides which it is excellent when pickled . It is propagated by offsets, which are often planted in See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September or See also:

• OCTOBER

October, but the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop should not be got in earlier than See also:

• FEBRUARY

February or the beginning of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March . In planting, the tops of the bulbs should be kept a little above ground, and it is a commendable See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan to draw away the See also:

• SOIL

soil surrounding the bulbs when they have got See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root-hold . They should not be planted on ground recently manured . They come to maturity about See also:

• JULY

July or See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August . There are two sorts—the See also:

• COMMON

common, and the See also:

• JERSEY
• JERSEY, EARLS OF

Jersey or See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian, the latter being much larger and less pungent .