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The Abbe Rozier has suggested that the whole 

 labour, delay, and risk which unavoidably attend 

 transplanting, might be saved by preparing trenches 

 as above described, and sowing the seeds in them 

 directly ; but though obviously the best method in 

 climates of the south, which admit sowing in Feb- 

 ruary, it is by no means clear that it would be 

 equally fitted for ours, where culture in the open 

 air does not begin till April. Coming, however, 

 from so high an authority, the plan may be worthy 

 of an experiment; and, if even successful in giving a 

 crop for winter use, it would no doubt tend to sim- 

 plify and abridge our labours. 



We need scarcely remark, that it is of the culture 

 of the branching or upright celery that we have been 

 thus far speaking, as the turnip-rooted sort requires 

 neither trenching nor earthing. Both species are 

 preserved through the winter in the same way, 

 either by covering the plants where they grow with 

 boards and stable litter, or by setting the roots in 

 sand, in the corner of a dark and moderately warm 

 roothouse or cellar. Plants which have been 

 kept in the former way are the fittest for giving 

 seed, and should be preferred for that purpose. 

 When this (the seed) is ripe, it separates easily 

 from the chaff, and should then be rubbed out by 

 the hand, put in paper bags, and hung up in a dry 

 and ventilated room for future use. 



SUCCORY (Cichorium). But two species of this 

 plant are cultivated in gardens, the Intybus and the 

 Endivia; the one for medicinal purposes, and the 

 other for the uses of the kitchen. Of the last, which 

 alone falls within the scope of our work, there are 

 several varieties, the best of which are the endive, 

 properly so called, the Celestine, and the always- 

 white. The first of these is the most prolific, and 

 the second the most tender and fittest for salads. 



In stiff clays and poor sands succory is a feeble 

 plant ; in dry soils it becomes tough and disagreea- 



