234 Review of the Horticultural Registei: 



niaiiagemeiit wliic^li others iiiiglit imitate. It is evident, IioMOVor, iliat fiir ail 

 tliis a coniiiiMiul of rapitiil is required, which is not often loiind among pro- 

 prietors ot" \ ineyards ; and to this cause, more than to any oilier, it is un- 

 double<ily to be traced, tliat a few celebrated projierties liave ac(iuired, and 

 maintained, almost a monopoly in the production of line wines." 



Art II. T7ie Horticultural Register, and Gdi'ral BTagazinc of 

 useful and interesting Discoveries, connected with Natural History, 

 and Rural Subjects. Conducted by J. Paxton, F. L. S. H. S. lu 

 monthly octavo numbers, Is. each. For March. 



The March number of this work contains a long and excellent 

 article on the cultivation of the celery. It suggests to cultivators of 

 this delicious vegetable, a new mode of blanching, and, also, explodes 

 the old system, so firmly rooted in the minds of most farmers and 

 gardeners, of setting the roots in trenches, so deep that they have 

 nothing to nourish themselves with, unless it were the cold, stiff sub- 

 soil of the low situations, which are generally selected for growing 

 the plants. The cultivation of celery, we have long been aware, 

 is little understood in this vicinity, as is apparent to every observer, 

 by the weak and stinted growth of the roots which are offered for 

 sale in our markets. Instead of that tall, stout, erect growth, and 

 crispy appearance, which are part of the qualifications of celery roots, 

 they are invariably one mass of short, slender, pithy stems, not much 

 larger than a quill, and each root divided into innumerable ofFsetts, 

 not generally weighing more than one or two, or, at the most, three 

 pounds each. 



The method of growing in trenches, was as much practiced with 

 the English horticulturists a few years since, as with our gardeners at 

 the present time ; but lately, the various articles which have appeared 

 in their Magazines, have awakened attention to the subject ; and, 

 except where prejudice still exists, the old system is entirely given 

 up. A gardener was once even thought visionary, and wholly un- 

 acquainted with his profession, who should suggest the idea of plant- 

 ing celery, in the same manner of other vegetables. 



"When a mere tyro," says this correspondent, "in a Gentleman's Garden, 

 a severe rebuke received, for ])resuming to suggest the propriety of planting 

 Celery in trenches less deep than those which immured every leaf of the 

 plant beneath the level of the circumjacent earth, dwells yet fresh upon the 

 memory. To harsh language, threats were addm], for daiing to think, yet 

 thought revelled unconfined, although the tongue was chained by the iron 

 hand of tyranny ! and meditation urged on to experiment which fully realized 

 my buoyant hopes, and brought conviction of the justness of ray young idea." 



An article in the Horticultural Register three years since, first 

 called our attention to this practice ; we then first read of celery roots 

 weighing ten and twelve pounds each, and immediately perceived 



