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A TILLA IN THE ANGLO-ITALIAN STYLE. 



to accomplish this, the stock, or nursery 

 bed, in which the plants grow in their se- 

 cond stage, must be thoroughly saturated 

 with water two or three hours in advance. 

 Then, with a trowel, take up each plant 

 separately, with a small ball of earth, 

 lay the balls in a sieve or basket, and 

 carry them at once and plant them in the 

 trenches. If it is well done, as it may in- 

 deed be with the greatest facility, not one 

 plant in five hundred will fail; and they 

 will scarcely suffer the least check, and 

 will require no shading. 



About earthing-up the plants, in order to 

 blanch or whiten the stalks, there is a good 

 deal of difference of opinion ; but it is all 

 easily reconciled. If you wish very large 

 plants, you must not commence blanching 

 till the last three or four weeks. If you do 

 not care about the size of the celery, but 

 only the delicacy and crispness of flavor, you 

 must commence earthing-up about the mid- 

 dle of August ; doing it frequently, and 

 very little at a time, in fine dry weather. 



The two best sorts of celery that I have 

 tried are Seymour'' s Hkite Solid, and Red 

 Solid. But, after all, I have raised as heavy 

 and as fine plants of the Common White, by 

 the mode here given, as of either of those 

 varieties. 



A word or two about keeping celery for 

 winter use, may not be out of place here. 

 Many persons complain of the difficulty of 



keeping it in winter — its rotting in the cel- 

 lar, root-house, etc. The method I have 

 employed for nine years, is a very simple, 

 easy one, and I have never lost a single 

 head by it, though I have raised and kept 

 many thousands. It is as follows : In No- 

 vember, when the frosty weather sets in, 

 and the time for digging the plants comes, 

 choose a high and dry part of the garden 

 in any convenient place ; level it, and be- 

 gin at one side to open a shallow trench, 

 deep enough to lay-in the roots of the celery 

 close together, burying them in an inclined 

 position, so as to cover all the blanched 

 part of the stalks, — only leaving the green 

 leaves at the top exposed. The next row 

 may be put within three inches of the last, 

 and so on, row inclining upon row, till the 

 Avhole is laid in. In this compact way, the 

 space required for a large crop will be only 

 a few feet square. This done, cover the 

 whole, as soon as the winter sets in, with 

 two and a half feet of straw, covered with 

 a few bits of wood to keep it down. This 

 will most effectually keep out all frost, 

 while the temperature of the soil itself is 

 so low that there can be no decay or change 

 in the plants. At the same time, by re- 

 moving a portion of the straw on one side, 

 the celery may be reached at any time dur- 

 ing the winter when required. 



Eespectfully yours. R. L. 



Long-Island, May, 1848. 



A VILLA IN THE ANGLO-ITALIAN STYLE. 



Our frontispiece shows a very pleasing 

 example of this style of country house, 

 which we borrow from one of Mr. Loudon's 

 publications, as a specimen well adapted 

 for many sites in this country. 



The Italian style is much more simple in 

 its details than the Gothic. It is therefore 



cheaper in construction. It also more rea- 

 dily adapts itself to a variety of scenery and 

 locality, and is, we think, on this account 

 more likely to give pleasure generally than 

 the Gothic style ; for though nothing can 

 well be more charming than the latter, 

 when built in suitable landscapes, its effect 



