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vate use usually sow it in April about 

 the 20th is a good time. It is often hard 

 to get up a good stand of celery, and we 

 may have to sow it twice or oftener; an 

 overdry surface of the ground is quite 

 killing to the sprouting celery. Should 

 your earlier sowings have been a failure, 

 don't hesitate to sow some more at once. 

 Give the ground a good soaking of water 

 before sowing; and after sowing shade 

 it till the seedlings appear. A thick seed 

 bed is sure to give you weak spindling 

 plants; better thin out yourseedlings and 

 enjoy the benefit of it in steady well- 

 rooted stock that transplants readily and 

 grows away from the first. Decide upon 

 what ground you want to save for cel- 

 ery and as soon as it is empty get it 

 planted. Celery loves deep, rich, moder- 

 ately moist soil. 



Chervil.— Sow a little of it in a row 

 or patch in common soil butin a sheltered 

 spot; it is very nice lor flavering. Make 

 two sowings a year. 



Chicory or witloof, which is broad- 

 leaved chicory and a capital salad in win- 

 ter. Sow it now in rows as you would 

 oyster plant or parsnips, and later on 

 thin out the seedlings to two or three 

 inches apart, this gives us fine, strong 

 crowns for winter work, weak narrow 

 roots produce weak tops, and for the 

 little extra trouble it takes better thin 

 the plants and thereby get all big roots 

 and all big leaf crowns. If sown very early 

 there is a chance of the plants running to 

 seed, which certainly ruins the roots for 

 another leaf crop. 



SriRBEfl flNTflONY WflTERBR AND ENOLISfl 

 SPARROWS. 



I do not know whether or not Mr. 

 Anthony Waterer ever did anything to 

 excite the ire of that race of little fiends 

 incarnate, the EngHsh sparrow, but it is 

 a singular discovery I have made that 

 they seem to have sworn enmity to the 

 spiraea named after him. Twelve plants 

 set out lately with other things in what 

 was to be a show bed, have been so dis- 

 figured, some being entirely gone, that 

 the symmetry of the bed is destroyed. 

 The sparrows do not eat the plant, 

 neither do they use it for nest building, 

 but it seems purely wanton and malicious 

 destruction on their part. The twigs are 

 constantly being nipped off clean, and 

 left scattered over the beds and upon the 

 sheds over the piazzas. What is the cause 

 of this strange action on the part of the 

 sparrows, when nothing else whatever in 

 the garden is destroyed in this way, I 

 cannot understand, but I write this as a 

 caution to others setting out young 

 plants of this novelty. [Sparrows or no 

 sparrows we are goingto plant it largely, 

 it is too nice a little shrub to omit.— Ed.] 

 L. C. L.Jordan. 



Gardening seems to me very perfect in 

 its line; each number is read with almost 

 as much interest and eagerness as if it 

 were a first-class serial novel. May it 

 longcontinuein the present editor's hands. 



Massachusetts. C. H. 



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