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seed is sown in cold beds ; when it is well up, the plants are 

 put into a bed of rich earth, and allowed to remain for a 

 few weeks, when they are transplanted into trenches. These 

 trenches should be made in the richest part of the garden, 

 and dug a little more than a foot deep, leaving the earth 

 thus taken out on either side of the trenches. Some rotten 

 manure is mixed in at the bottom of the trench, putting some 

 of the loamy earth from the sides with it. In the centre of 

 the trench place the plants, leaving five or six inches be- 

 tween each plant. They should be abundantly watered and 

 partially shaded for the first two or three weeks. They may 

 be hoed some time before they are earthed. The earthing 

 should be done in dry weather, otherwise it is apt to make 

 the celery grow rusty. Celery intended for winter is planted 

 later in the summer. 



* CRESS (Lapidium sativum). 



The Curled, or Peppergrass, is liked by many with Lettuce. 

 It is sown in little drills, quite thickly, and in ground free 

 from weeds. It is of easy cultivation. 



CUCUMBER (Cucumis sativa). 



The seed of the cucumber is put into hills of rich earth, 

 well-rotted manure being placed in each hill. Cucumbers 

 are sometimes raised in the squash bed. The hills should 

 be three or four feet apart. They require water in dry 

 weather, and to have the insects kept off from them. Char- 

 coal-dust, wood-ashes, and washes with such liquids as are 

 destructive to insects and not injurious to the young plants, 

 water in which burdock-leaves, soot, &c. have been steeped, 

 can be advantageously applied. Cucumbers should be always 

 plucked before they turn yellow, as otherwise they soon ex- 

 haust the vine. 



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