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Green-house during winter, and put out three weeks 

 before corn-planting time, I am persuaded, it would 

 bring good seed in June. The quantity of this 

 plant must depend upon the taste for it; but it is so 

 much better than the very best of cabbages, that it 

 is worth some trouble to get it. 



210. CELERY. The qualities of this plant are 

 universally known. There are three or four sorts. 

 The white, the red, the hollow, and the solid. The 

 hollow white is the best ; but the propagation and 

 cultivation of all are the same. The whole of that 

 part of the year, during which r the frost is out of 

 the ground, is not a bit too long for the getting of 

 fine Celery. The seed, sown in the cold ground, 

 in April, will lie six weeks before it come up. A 

 wheel-barrow full of hot dung, put in a hole in the 

 ground against a wall, or any fence, facing the 

 south, and covered with rich and fine mould, will 

 bring the seed up in two weeks. If you have a hot- 

 bed frame, or a hand-light, the thing is easy. A 

 large flower-pot will bring up out of ground, plants 

 enough for any family. As soon as the plants are 

 three inches high, and it scarcely matters how thick 

 they stand, make a nice little bed in open free air ; 

 make the ground rich and the earth very fine. Here 

 prick out the plants at 4 inches apart; and, of course, 

 9 in a square foot. They are so very small, that 

 this must be carefully done ; and they should be 

 gently watered once, and shaded 2 days. A bed 10 

 feet long and 4 wide will contain 360 plants : and, 

 if they be well cultivated, they are more than any 

 common-sized family can want from November till 

 May. In this bed the plants stand till the middle 

 of July, or thereabouts, when they are to go out 

 into trenches. Make the trenches a foot deep and 

 a foot wide, and put them not less than five feet 



