86 CELERY. 



time of burying, and the other depths will 

 ripen a regular succession of beds as 

 wanted one after another. 



The covering is put on for two reasons : 

 to keep out the frost; and to keep in 

 what we have already suffered to enter 

 for our own purposes. For this reason, if 

 I had placed my bed in a warm situation, 

 the ground not freezing there as soon as it 

 does on the North side of a hill, the celery 

 would have taken fresh root, and have 

 grown before it could have been checked. 

 My readers cannot fail to see the import- 

 ance of controlling the maturity of celery 

 so as to make it accommodate itself to 

 their convenience, a result which is quite 

 within their power if the frost be allowed 

 to enter in turn to the several depths 

 above mentioned. Since adopting this 



