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in the ground; and should be placed about six inches 

 apart, if they are to remain on hand long, so as to 

 allow the air to circulate properly. 



To prepare a pit for storing celery make the sides 

 of plank, 24 feet apart and about two feet high from the 

 ground. The boards for covering should be thirteen 

 feet long, the ends of two lengths meeting each other on 

 the centre of the pit ; where it should have an interior 

 height of six feet. Enough loam is thrown out from 

 the inside, in forming the pit, to embank the sides and 

 ends. 



In setting the celery, commence at one end of the 

 pit : dig a trench about three inches deep, and set in 

 the celery as closely as you can in the row. In taking 

 up loam for covering the roots of one row, another 

 trench is obtained for setting down the next. Be care- 

 ful to make it stand up perfectly straight : and, either 

 in the field or in the pit, the yellow leaves should all 

 be removed before the packing in. 



The pit can be extended to any length desired, and 

 partitions may be employed : so that portions of the 

 stock can be kept cooler, and so held back ; or can be 

 kept warmer and ripened off. 



The pit coverings of boards must be put on as fast 

 as the celery is got in. Small ventilators, about one 

 foot square, are constructed along the centre, about 

 twenty feet apart. These are opened in clear and 

 moderately cold weather; and thus the temperature is 

 kept at about 35° to 40^ Fahrenheit, until a supply is 

 wanted for market — when they can be kept closed, 

 and the cehrv allowed to ripen. 



