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abundance of stalks, but a good stout bot- 

 tom. Those who pursue the old method 

 get a small root, and as a natural conse- 

 quence, small, feeble stalks. The result 

 which I have at last obtained is, to raise 

 celery which does not rust, is neither 

 pithy nor stringy, and to have an average 

 crop of large heads, the stalks of which 

 will be as white and clean as a sperm 

 candle. Moreover, I have to expend but 

 half the labor and money on the crop that 

 I formerly did, and thus make it a very 

 profitable business. Formerly the losses 

 were so great that the crop seldom paid 

 for raising, for if, perchance, I succeeded 

 in getting a fair crop, I lost it all after it 

 was harvested, from ignorance of the 

 method for preserving it from rotting. I 



