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but sold it at wholesale to other gardeners, 

 and supplied Washington and Fulton mar- 

 kets in New York, the River boats, Sara- 

 toga hotels, the Catskill Mountain House, 

 and the city of Schenectady. From 1835 to 

 1840 he sold an average of one thousand 

 bunches a day. As he says himself, he could 

 raise perhaps as fine a crop of celery then 

 as he has been able to during the past few 

 years, but as he could never succeed in 

 keeping it over winter, he was no better 

 oflf than his neighbors. It was only after 

 failures, losses, and disappointments, that 

 he discovered the simple expedients de- 

 tailed in this little work; and he estimates 

 that it has cost him between nine and 

 ten thousand dollars to acquire the 

 knowledge which the reader gets in the 

 succeeding pages for an hundred cents. 



