CELERY. 31 



PREPARING THE HOT-BEDS. 



The hot-beds should be made ready for 

 the reception of the seed as early as the 

 first day of March, in this latitude. I do 

 not propose to enter into the details of their 

 construction, further than to say that 

 when finished with the manure, a depth 

 of about twelve inches of fine soil should 

 be added, the surface leveled, the sashes 

 closed, and after being covered with straw 

 mats, the bed should thus remain for ten 

 days before a particle of seed is sown. The 

 object of this plan is to raise a full crop of 

 weeds, which at the expiration of the ten 

 days may be all destroyed, and the soil be 

 thus left clean for the crop of plants. Those 



