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Celery can be grown as # second crop after early Heian potatoes, ‘&e., &e. 
The earthing up can be mostly done with the plow and horse-hoe, with a 
careful hand to use them. 
Securing. 
Time of putting away varies according to the weather, but should be 
- gecured by the first of November, always selecting dry, pleasant weather 
in handling. The same rule in its cultivation after the plants are set out. 
Preservation. 
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To keep celery in and through the winter season in large quantities in 
this climate is no small task, where the weather is so changeable, and I 
hardly feel competent for the task, though I have kept it until the first of 
April. It is very evident that it should be kept cool, not where it will 
freeze, with some light and circulation of air. The soil in every case 
should he free from clay and gravel. A moderately dry sandy loam is the 
best in which to put it away. One very good way is to select a southern 
slope, dig trenches two feet deep and eighteen inches wide to set it in; 
plow the earth away from one row at a time with one horse; then witha 
fork or spade loosen the plants and remove to the trench, setting them in 
an angle of about sixty degrees, and not so close but that there will bea 
little space between them; press the earth well on the roots and earth up 
nearly to the tips, and fill up the trench with dry leaves or straw. Lay 
some short pieces ot boards across the trench six feet apart, and cover the 
trenches with two boards one foot or more wide, letting them lap over 
each other in the middle to keep out all rain or melting snow. Then 
spread evenly over the trench straw or hay, to the thickness of one foot 
or more and four feet in width, and as the weather gets colder add more 
straw, and cover it over with six or eight inches of horse-manure. This 
can be taken out any pleasant day at noon. 
Another very good way for storing small quantities is to take a deep hot- 
bed trame, dig a pit for it two or three feet deep. Set the frame, set out 
the celery as hefore stated, fill up the top space with leaves or straw and 
cover over with boards. Then hay or straw with manure at the outside to 
keep out the frost. When one has a cool cellar or root-house, by making 
one floor above the other, can store quite a good quantity, and protect by 
dry straw. 
A great deal depends upon the condition of the soil in which the celery 
is put away. It should be moderately dry and free from all vegetable mat- 
ter. White clean sand is very good when easily obtained. Peat soil is 
one of the best in which to grow celery, and also for storing itaway. There 
are numerous large tracts of peat lands in this State, and, at no very dis- 
tant day, we may expect to see these very valuable lands devoted to the 
cultivation of celery if not to cranberries. 
Wo. E. BRIMHALL. 
DISCUSSION. 
In the discussion which followed Mr. Harris said he would re- 
