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and not supersede, what else has been written. But it may be as 

 well to add, that celery loves water ; and to make sure, after all the 

 preliminary work, that it shall come right at last, water must be 

 given in abundance during dry, hot weather. The best time is 

 evening, and the only way likely to be beneficial is such a dose as will 

 completely soak the ground to and below the roots. As for the 

 earthing-up, defer that as long as possible, remembering that celery 

 cannot be nicely blanched in a less period thau five weeks, and that 

 therefore it will not be creditable to the cultivator to put it on 

 the table until it has been moulded-up at least a mouth or more. 



In selecting varieties to be grown for home use, avoid all those 

 called " gigantic," " mammoth," etc. You want beauty and flavour, 

 not mere size, and all the larger kinds are more or less deficient of 

 flavour. The following are first-rate : — Turner's Incomparable Dwarf 

 White, Carter's Incomparable Dark Crimson. Both these are dwarf, 

 solid, and well-flavoured, and have a most elegant appearance on the 

 table. The following are also good : — Satfon's Superb Fink, which 

 grows large and haudsorae ; Cole's Crystal White, also large, hand- 

 some, and does not readily run to seed. 



In case of the fly attacking the growing crop, and which is readily 

 detected by the blistered appearance of the leaves, sprinkle with dry 

 soot or fresh lime, at day-break, while the dew is on the leaves. 



Brixton. A\^. B. B. 



CULTUEE OF LILY OF THE YALLEY IN POTS. 



jiHIS plant being the most beautiful of all fragrant hardy 

 British herbaceous perennials, and within the reach of 

 the cottager as well as the aristocracy of its native land, 

 its easy cultivation enhances its value, and should ensure 

 for it all the esteem and care whicli it deserves. For 

 bouquets, button-holes, dinner-table decoration, cottage-window, 

 conservatory, and garden border, its flowers are never out of place. 

 You find them at the marriage festivities, at the christening, and we 

 lay them on the bosoms of the beloved dead. The long season 

 during which the flowers may be had — namely, from December to 

 May — aff"ords a special reason for the extensive cultivation of this 

 valuable plant in pots, on which subject I will now offer a few 

 remarks. It is not particular as to the aspect in which it is placed 

 or planted, but does not like to be too much shaded with trees, or 

 roasted too much in a walled garden by the reflection upon it of 

 sun-heat. The soil should be light and sandy, trenched two feet 

 deep, digging in plenty of good rotten cow or horse manure and 

 leaf-mould. Plant four rows in a bed, in patches of twelve or 

 eighteen crowns to a patch (each patch in a circle of six inches), 

 about eighteen inches from clump to clump, and two feet from row 

 to row. Take care to plant them diagonally, thus — 



