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As to Celery, he recommended that it should be planted early. He 

 did not think celery so easily grown as corn ; it needs a great deal of 

 water. If ground is moist, there is no difficulty, if once started. In 

 planting cucumbers, beans, etc., he was in the habit of making a miniature 

 hot-bed for each hill, and covering it with glass. 



Mr. Hunt accused Prof. Standish of stealing his thunder, and 

 approved generally of his recommendation. Hot-beds are not always 

 necessary for starting seeds. The use of the hot-bed was simply to start 

 the seeds early, protecting and nourishing the plants till they can be 

 placed out of doors, thus gaining time. The method of making hot-beds 

 was well known. In this country they should not be put below the 

 surface, but on the surface, otherwise our heavy rains would destroy 

 them. Different kinds of seed required different amounts of heat; 

 cabbages required little, tomatoes a great deal. From the fifteenth to the 

 twentieth of March was early enough to make hot-beds ; this year he 

 made his on the seventeenth of March. If made earlier, he found that 

 the plants needed to be checked in their growth before it was safe to 

 plant them out, and that this injured them. He made his manure heap 

 just the size of his frames, and from twelve to fifteen inches deep, with 

 six inches of earth. The glass he put close to the earth — the closer the 

 better ; otherwise the plants are too much drawn out. 



Of Beans, he thought the Early Fejii tough, the Dwarf White and 

 Black Wax good, but the Giant Wax not productive enough for market 

 purposes ; the Large Lima was the best of all, while the Small Lima was 

 the more certain ; Egyptian he preferred for earliness. 



In Cabbages, he had given up the Early York; the Early Wyman was 

 far before it in every respect ; the Winningstadt was good, but the Potter's 

 Improved Drumhead was the best for a market cabbage. He recommended, 

 along with the others mentioned, the Orange Water Melon. 



To plant all the Peas you want at one time he thought the best way. 

 They thus get well started before dry weather comes. There was, he 

 thought, no certainty in late planting. He planted about five or six 

 inches deep, and for early sorts covered only two or three inches and 

 worked the earth around them as they grew; he never staked or bushed 

 his peas. For the large sort, such as the Champion of England and 

 others of like growth, he planted them in a single row three feet and a 

 half apart, and let them grow. In this way they covered the ground, 

 kept it moist, and gave a larger yield than those that were staked, as he 

 found by actual experiment. He recommended the Valparaiso Squash 

 as the best of any. 



