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well for this branch. Frequent waterings will facilitate the head- 

 ino; or flowerino;. 



Celery is yearly growing more and more in favor. It is not 

 necessary to start the plants in a hot-bed, as they do best grown 

 the latter part of the season and blanched in cool weather. Seed 

 sown in drills, one foot apart, in the first half of June will furnish 

 plants for setting out the first half of July. One-fourth inch is 

 deep enough to cover this fine seed. Transplant during a wet day, 

 if possible, setting the plants in trenches six to eight inches apart. 

 The trenches, or rows, should be three feet apart, to afibrd earth 

 to bank up with. Fifteen inches in depth and one foot wide, 

 forms a good trench, throwing the earth out between the rows. 

 Fill in six inches of well rotted manure, and the thrown out earth, 

 equal portions, and in this set the plants, covering and shading if 

 in hot, dry weather. Keep well hoed, and Avork in a little of the 

 surface soil occasionally^ leaving most of it to be returned early in 

 October, when the stalks are carefully gathered up in the hand 

 and tied with soft strings, or straw, and the finely pulverized soil 

 returned carefully about them, avoiding bruises, and not allowing 

 the earth to get in the centre of the plant. Some persons wrap 

 the plant with a newspaper to prevent the earth from getting into 

 the centre. Leave banked earth in a cone form, to turn water. A 

 second earthing may be given late in October, and they will be 

 finely blanched in a few weeks. Earthing up is sometimes, but 

 improperly, done each fortnight during the grooving season. 

 Stalks should be grown in the air, and then blanched. 



Cucumbers — There are many varieties of this running plant, but 

 the Early Frame, White Spine, and Long Green are all good and sufii- 

 cieut for ordinary gardens. They do best on a rich soil. Plant where 

 they are to remain, the last of April or early in May, and at any sub- 

 sequent period until the middle of July, the late plantings for 

 pickles. The hills should be four feet apart ; have some well 

 rotted manure dug in with the earth, and ten or twelve seeds 

 planted half an inch deep in each. After going through the attacks 

 of bugs, thin to three strong plants in a hill. Wooden boxes with 

 no covers, placed over the hill will keep ofi" bugs. A dusting of 

 suutf or pounded tobacco is also efl'ectual. Radishes or lettuce 

 may be raised between the hills, to be removed before the vines 

 cover the grounds. Cucumbers are often finely grown by plant- 

 ing ill a tub or half-barrel, partly filled with nuuuu-e, putting six 

 inches of dirt on top, and setting it near the kitchen to receive the 



