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easy to make it grow, but hard to check 

 it if once started. " Whereas, on the 

 North side of a hill I can control its 

 growth to my liking, and still protect it 

 against freezing and thawing by a proper 

 covering. 



There are three errors into which celery- 

 growers fall. First : digging it up and 

 burying it with the leaves damp, thus 

 causing mildew, decay, and death. Se- 

 cond : knocking the dirt from the roots, 

 and thus leaving them to wilt and become 

 pithy, while the leaves are drying ; the 

 consequence of which is that when put 

 into trench the stalks become pithy also, 

 before the enfeebled root has a chance to 

 strike fresh rootlets to supply them with 

 sap. Third : burying their Winter celery 

 in damp ground, where there is no under 



