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treatment of this most profitable crop, as 

 practiced by myself, after many years of 

 practical experiment. Of the importance 

 of the suggestions herein contained some 

 idea can be had, when we consider that 

 there are sold in the City of New York 

 alone, several millions of bunches every 

 year, and its consumption is constantly 

 on the increase. That it has, in some 

 measure, been regarded as an article of 

 luxury and beyond the reach of the poor, 

 is simply due to the uncertainty which 

 has attended its cultivation. I do not 

 doubt, in fact I know from personal expe- 

 rience, that sometimes, with even the 

 highest market prices, celery culture has 

 not paid its bare expenses. This is an 

 entirely unnecessary state of things, and 

 I confidently assert that if gardeners will 



