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cardial up to twelve iuohes, but fifteen or twenty 

 are better; By this means, it' the soil be rich, 

 those of the main crop that have been planted 

 out in the end of June or in July, sometimes 

 make such progress, thai by September or Oc- 

 tober they may be blanched eighteen inches or 

 near two feet in length. These earthings are to 

 be continued to the later crops occasionally un- 

 til Christmas, or as long as the plants continue 

 to grow in height during the winter; at which 

 season, as about November and December, it 

 is proper to earth them up pretty near their tops 

 previously to hard frost setting in, which often 

 destroys such plants as are out of the ground; 

 and which, if of considerable duration, would 

 occasion the decav of most of the other parts 

 that are within the earth. But in the late crops, 

 planted in October or November for spring use, 

 such plants as are of small or low growth will 

 probably require little or no earthing till Fe- 

 bruary or March ; at which time they should he 

 earthed up moderately, according to their 

 growth, to have them for April or May, when 

 the general crops are finished. In earthing up 

 the plants that are planted in the latter of the 

 above methods, it will be necessary to trim the 

 earth in well between the rows, taking it equally 

 from the different sides ; in doing which it is 

 of advantage, where the plants have attained a 

 large growth, to be furnished with a couple of 

 thin boards six feet long, which are to be used 

 at the time of earthing, to slip into the spaces 

 between the rows of the plants, to keep the 

 stalks and leaves up close just till the earth is put 

 in, placing them close to the plants, and then 

 trimming in the earth between them ; and when 

 one space is thus earthed, drawing out the 

 boards, and placing them in the next. The dif- 

 ferent earthings should always, if possible, be 

 performed when the plants are dry, as where this 

 circumstance is not attended to they are apt to 

 become spotted and cankcry. Some of the first 

 earthed up plants, where they have been planted 

 in the trenches in May, or the beginning of 

 June, w ill generally be fit to take up in July ; for 

 when such early plants arc blanched five or six 

 inches in length, it is time to begin to take them 

 up, as they rarely continue long before they be- 

 gin to pipe and become useless. But the plants 

 of tin main crop will seldom be blanched any 

 considerable length, till the middle or latter end 

 of August and beginning of September, and 

 will not have acquired their full perfection until 

 October, as observed above. However, where 

 there is much demand lor the plants, you may 

 begin to take some up when they are blanched 

 six or seven inches, as, if ■property iollo-Acd with 



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earthing, they will be daily increasing in length 

 in the blaaclied part. In winter, at the ap- 

 proach of a very severe frost, it may sometimes 

 be of advantage to cover some or the rows of 

 the main crop with dry long litter to save the 

 plants, and prevent the ground being frozen 

 hard, that the plants may be readily dug up 

 when wanted. xVnd when a hard frost is ex- 

 pected, a quantity of the plants may be taken up 

 lor use, and laid in some dry earth in a sheet, 

 or other sheltered place. 



In the culture of the Turnip-rooted variety, 

 the seed should be sown in an open rich spot m 

 March or April, as directed for the common 

 sort ; and when the plants are an inch or two in 

 height^ they should be thinned out to three 

 inches; and :w hen at four, live, or six inches in 

 height, transplanted into shallow trenches; pre- 

 viously to winch the giound must be dug all 

 over one spade deep, and drills three inches 

 deep, and eighteen asunder, made with a hoe, 

 in which the plants arc to be set six inches di- 

 stant. When they are advanced nine or ten 

 inches in growth, examine the progress of the 

 roots ; and if they have acquired a tolerable 

 size, draw earth up to each side of the row of 

 the plants, three or tour inches high, which 

 being well watered, will be sunieient to improve 

 the roots. They are generally fit to take up for 

 use in a fortnight or three weeks afterwards. 



In saving the seed of Celery, great care 

 should be taken to select the best plants which 

 have not been much blanched, planting them 

 out at the distance of a foot in the early spring 

 months in rich moist soil ; and when they have 

 run up to seed, to support them with stakes, till 

 the seed ripens in August, when they should be 

 cut, when dry, and laid to harden in the sun on 

 cloths, after which the seeds should be beaten out 

 and put up in bags for use, being kept dry. 



APOCY-lNUM, a genus containing hardy, 

 herbaceous, perennial and shrubby tender exo- 

 tics, of the flowering kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria Di- 

 g/jnia, and ranks in the natural order Coiitortce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leaied, live-parted, acute, short, and permanent 

 pcrianthium : the corolla is monopetalous, bell- 

 sliaped, and sennquinquelid : the divisions re- 

 volute : the nectaiy consists of five glandular 

 oval capsules surrounding the germ : the stamina 

 consist of very short filaments : the anther* 

 oblong, erect,' acute, bilid at the base, conver- 

 ging : the pistilhun consisting of two ovate germs : 

 the styles short : the stigmas roundish, bifid at 

 the top, mnricate, glued to the anthers : the peri- 

 carpiuui consists of two long, acuminate, one- 



