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a pit the same as for potatoes, banking the earth up about three feet or over around 

 the pit. Place posts in the ground along the centre of the pit, saw the tops off level and 

 nail on a scantling. From this ridge place scantling at proper distances and cover with 

 boards. Cover this with soil enough to keep frost out. The celery is placed in the bot- 

 tom of this pit, which should be aired in fine weather. 



Alex. McD. Allan.. 



Mr. Beadle. — In our part of the world I find that our market gardeners are culti- 

 vating celery somewhat differently from what we used to do when we were boys. They 

 plough the ground, mellow it, and make it rich ; and then they just take the plough and 

 make a furrow and set the plants out in it. They then cultivate it and take care of it 

 while it grows up. Towards the fall of the year, when they want to hill it up, they run 

 the plough through between the rows of celery, and then go along holding the plants in 

 the left hand, and firm the earth up to them with the other hand. They then put the 

 plough in again, and throw some more earth up, and so on. They bank the earth 

 against the plants and keep it that way until the autumn, when they dig it up. Some 

 plant it out again in trenches two or three feet wide, and set it down as though they 

 were setting it out, with a couple of boards on it like a sort of roof. They also throw a 

 little litter on it so that they can get at it in the winter. Others have a sort of above- 

 ground cellar, and they pack it away in that with some soil around the roots as though 

 they were setting it out to grow, and in mild weather these plants will grow away there 

 in the cellar. I have known them to grow a foot longer in the course of the winter. 

 In that way it is blanched ; and they take it to the market as they want it in the winter. 



Mr. Wilson Arnott. — I have had snme experience in growing cabbage. I think 

 that of the late varieties Fottler's Drumhead and the large Flat Dutch are the best for 

 the summer varieties. I generally raise the American Jersey Wakefield and the Win- 

 ningstadt. The Wakefield comes about the 1st of July, and will bring about ten cents a 

 head. The Winningstadt is about ten days later. 



Mr. Edwards. — Ten years ago I planted some cabbages between my currant 

 bushes, and I never raised better cabbages. I first of all made my hill, puddled it well, 

 then put my seed in, and afterwards put in about half a teacupful of hardwood ashes, and 

 covered it up, and never did anything more, and I had the best cabbages 1 ever raised. 



BLACK WALNUT. 



Mr. Beall then read the following paper on the question, " In what parts of the 

 Province can Black Walnut be profitably raised 1 " : — 



"The impression seems to prevail, generally, that the Black Walnut, which is indi- 

 genous in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, the southern part of Michigan, and in only 

 a very small portion of the extreme southern part of Ontario, will not thrive in the more 

 northerly portions of the Province. Why this impression so generally prevails I do not 

 know, as many of our best fruit-trees, flowering-shrubs, and also some of our forest trees, 

 are natives of countries far south of the localities in which they are successfully grown. 

 The nut of the Walnut, so much used as a dessert fruit, is the product of a tree of the 

 Jaglayidacea family — Juglans Regia — and although a native of Persia, may now be found 

 in large numbers in nearly every country of Europe. That very excellent map, com- 

 piled by Messrs. Bell and Drummond, showing the ' Northern limits of the principal 

 Timber Trees in the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,' 

 may possibly have done much to establish this impression : but it should be borne in 

 mind that the authors of this map had nothing to do with acclimatization, or other kin- 

 dred theories : they simply gave what they professed to give, viz : the northern limit of 

 the principal timber-trees, and according to this map, the northern limit of the Black 

 Walnut, when this Province was an unbroken forest, was a line nearly parallel with, 



