32 CELERY. 



who neglect this precaution suffer the pe- 

 nalty. Their tender, slow growing, young 

 celery plants are choked with the more 

 vigorous weeds ; or the weeds are removed 

 at the cost of great labor and expense. 



The bed being now thoroughly cleansed 

 of weeds, it should be dug over and raked, 

 and a slope given to the surface corre- 

 sponding to that of the glass above. To 

 make drills for the seed, take a slat three 

 inches wide and of the desired length, and 

 press it edgewise into the soil to the 

 depth of an inch ; making the depth 

 uniform throughout. Thus the seed being 

 deposited at an equal depth the plants 

 will come up simultaneously, and be of 

 one hight. The drills should be six inches 

 apart. The old plan, it will be recollected, 

 is to make the drills with a small marker, 



