34 GARDENING 



RECIPE FOR COOKING 



They should be carefully pared and boiled till tender, 

 then served either whole with melted butter or white sauce, 

 or cut into slices with white sauce poured over them. As a 

 variety, the white sauce can be flavoured with Parmesan 

 cheese. 



CELERY 



This favourite vegetable was formerly in a wild 

 state and grew in ditches, and was called ' smallage,' 

 but with cultivation its original state is almost 

 unrecognisable. The first sowing should be made 

 about the end of February, a second sowing the 

 first week in March, and a third sowing about the 

 middle of April. 



For the first crop in February, the seed should 

 be sown in a box or pan and kept in a warm green- 

 house, and then the young plants transported to a 

 hotbed in a frame as soon as they are fit to prick 

 out. The soil should be rich, they should be fre- 

 quently watered, and the earth stirred, and in 

 favourable weather plenty of air given them. The 

 second sowing in March should be the same as the 

 first, and the pricking out may be placed in open 

 situations in warm showery weather. The young 

 plants should be put in six inches apart in the 

 nursery beds, well watered, and the earth around 

 them constantly stirred. 



The third sowing in April may take place in 

 open frames and attended to as before mentioned. 



Planting out. — Trenches must be dug about 

 eight inches deep, and the soil should have been 



