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Regarding the profits of this crop I can speak from a 

 very extensive experience in its culture, having cultivated 

 an average of ten acres for the past eighteen years. For 

 many years, in the early part of that time, it was, by no 

 means, what we would now call a profitable crop. By 

 persisting in raising the large growing sorts, and the awk- 

 ward and expensive mode we had then of working it, we 

 were satisfied if it gave us a profit of $50 or $75 per acre. 

 But for the last six or eight years, by adopting the flat 

 culture, and the drain or trench system for winter storage, 

 it has done much better, and is now a very profitable 

 " second crop," averaging a clear profit of 8300 per acre, 

 though it rarely brings over $3 per 100 roots. No doubt, 

 in many parts of the country, it would be much more prof- 

 itable than in the crowded markets of New York. It is 

 shipped from here in all directions ; to Philadelphia (large- 

 ly), Baltimore and Washington, (South), and to New- 

 port, Providence, Hartford and Xew Haven, (East). It is 

 a bulky and expensive article to ship, and the dealer must 

 realize more than double on the purchase, or it will not 

 pay his risk. It must thus cost the consumer, in these 

 towns to which we send it, 8 or 10 cents a head, a price at 

 which it would jay a clear profit of 81000, or $1500 per 

 acre. 



If the awkward and laborious systems of cultivation 

 still persisted in for the growing of Celery, is a mistake, the 

 continued use of the tall growing and coarse varieties, 

 we believe to be even a far greater one. The kinds that 

 should be grown, either for private or market use, are 

 very limited. 



Incomparable Dwarf. — This, so far, is decidedly our 



