122 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1891. 



Celery is a garden vegetable that has made wonderful strides 

 in the past ten or fifteen years. Whether it has kept pace with 

 the education of the American people is doubtful, but it has 

 contributed more than any vegetable towards it, in my opinion. 

 It is a green vegetable for winter use, and is eaten in its raw 

 state. For the tired and over-worked American, it is a nerve 

 panacea ; and as it is not relished, or eaten, after it gets to be 

 !iecond-hand, it is a safe accompaniment of any meal. If people 

 don't sell their good taste to fashion, but place the stalks on the 

 table entire, with their beautiful leaves overhanging the dish, it 

 makes a bouquet that will cheer the weary, and stimulate all 

 the good there is in us. It is one of the vegetables when good, 

 and well grown, that is all that most appetites desire of itself. 

 Some will demoralize it, by eating it with salt ; others with 

 olive or some other oil ; but the large majority of people find it 

 good enough, as it comes from the garden, or storage pit, if it 

 takes a thorough bath on the way to the table. There have 

 been many new varieties introduced within a few years, and like 

 all other new vegetables some very few have proved better than 

 any we had before in some respects. 



There is no celery that I have grown that is better than the 

 Boston Market when it is well grown ; but of late it requires 

 more skill than the ordinary person possesses. 



The White Plume is easily grown, and for early is very pass- 

 able ; not quite so good as Paris Golden, another variety that is 

 easily blanched, and good for early. The Giant Pascal is the 

 best of the new-comers for late, more hardy than most of the 

 good varieties. Were it not for the vast amount of fungi in 

 the air and ground, it would be an easy matter to grow celery ; 

 but thousands of people, after working hard all the season to 

 get their celery grown, see it blight and rot. It seems too bad 

 that we are obliged to eat celery grown in Michigan, a good deal 

 of the year, but the fact remains. Celeriac or turnip-rooted 

 celery is more easily grown and kept than celery, and is better 

 for seasoning meat and soups. 



Water-Cress is a desirable vegetable, can be grown in any 

 garden soil as easily as pepper-grass, and is a very nice plant 



