KITCHEN-GARDENING. 65 



Some gardeners prefer to raise celery on level ground, and 

 continue to form a ridge, as the plants grow, by drawing clean 

 earth up against the plants. Others set a four or five-inch 

 drain tile over each plant ; and as it grows, fine, rich, clean 

 soil mostly sand is worked down in the tiles, keeping the 

 plants in the middle of the orifice in the tile. Others set two 

 planks on the edge, each side of the rows of celery, and fill 

 up between the planks with a clean loamy soil. 



THE BEST WAY OF STORING CELERY. 



Many people complain of their Celery one of the most 

 difficult garden crops to raise in perfection that it does not 

 keep well through the winter ; sometimes withers, but oftener 

 rots. It is recommended by some that it should be preserved 

 in the rows where it grows, and that removal more or less injures 

 it. Where the plant is grown in a soil of a dry nature and 

 Celery never should be grown there it may be well kept in 

 the row ; but we deny most emphatically that removal injures 

 it in the slightest particular. 



We pursue two modes, and find both to answer completely. 

 The first is to remove the Celery to high and dry ground, dig 

 a trench spade-deep, stand up a row of plants, then three inches 

 of soil, then another row, and so on until about a half-dozen 

 rows are finished, and then commence another bed, and so on. 

 The soil should be packed firmly, and banked up so that the 

 tops of the Celery are just covered ; then spank off roof-fashion, 

 to turn the rain. Over this two wide boards, nailed together, 

 should be placed as a security against moisture. For remember 

 it is water, not frost, as some say, that rots Celery. Frost 

 adds to its tenderness. 



Another plan is to sink barrels into the earth, so that the 

 tops are two or three inches below the surface, stand them 

 compactly full of Celery, put close or tight covers upon them, 

 and then a couple of inches of soil. By this mode, somewhat 

 more troublesome than the other, ours kept well for the last 



