PREFACE. XIX 



It is only within ten years that he 

 has had partial, and within four years 

 absolute, success in keeping celery sound 

 and good throughout the winter and even 

 as late as the month of May. A record 

 of the successive failures which he has 

 had, would doubtless cover the separate 

 experiences of a score of celery growers ; 

 and if only a portion of them be given at 

 this time, it is for the reason that it does 

 not matter so much what he has gone 

 through, as that he now succeeds, and can 

 tell his readers how to do likewise. 



Mr. Roessle's gardening was first on 

 seven acres, but as his sales increased he 

 leased adjoining places, and got up suc- 

 cessively to fifty, and finally one hundred 

 and sixteen acres. For two acres of 

 ground which he wished to use for celery 



