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in the rows, giving them frequent hoeings. My work with beets is 

 finished till digging. In this way I have two crops, one of spinach, 

 and one of beets. I gathered from a bed in this way, twenty feet 

 square, thirty -three bushels of beets and fourteen bushels of spinach. 



JOHN P. HAFF. 

 BuWs Ferry, JV. J. 



Celery. 



In compliance with the act of the Legislature of the State of New- 

 York, making it obligatory on persons receiving premiums for agri- 

 cultural productions from the American Institute, to specify the mode 

 of raising the same, expense or otherwise, I beg to hand the fol- 

 lowing description necessary to be observed for raising celery of like 

 quality for which the Institute awarded me a premium at its last 

 annual Fair. 



In selecting lands best adapted for raising celery, take such as is 

 rather moist and fully exposed or open to the south, having been 

 under garden cultivation for at least one year previous. For raising 

 the plants I use about a common wheelbarrow full of rotten stable 

 manure to each bed of 10 feet square, spread on the surface and 

 turned under, some 6 or 8 inches deep, the same raked smooth, and 

 about the last week in March or first week in April, sow the celery 

 seed broadcast, raking the seed under. I am careful to keep the bed 

 free from weeds until the plants are ready for drawing. The land 

 intended for the reception of the plants must be well prepared by 

 plowing, cleaning and harrowing, or raking smooth on the surface. I 

 dravv^ the furrows about four feet apart, and from 6 to 8 inches deep, 

 sloping the sides To about every sixty feet of furrow I use one 

 barrow full of rotten stable manure, which is turned under some four 

 or five inches deep. The plants are generally fit for drawing about 

 the first week in July; when I take the first favorable state of the 

 weather for removing the plants into the furrows, setting them about 

 six inches apart, nipping off the top of each plant from one to two 

 inches. During the growth of the plants I am very careful to keep 

 them free from weeds, and occasionally open the ground about the 

 plants by hoeing. Early in September the plants are ready to admit 

 of being covered on each side with the soil about their height, and 

 when the heart appears, and the weather suitable, I bank up the soil 

 on each side to near the top of the plant, allowing them to remain in 

 this state till ready for market. The actual expense for raising such 

 celery for which I received the premium, every thing estimated at 

 first cost, would be about three dollars per hundred, and yield me 

 from 25 to 33 per cent profit. JOSEPH CLOWES. 



Harsimus^JV. J., Oct., 1842. 



Culinary Vegetables. 



The culinary vegetables exhibited by my gardener, Maurice Cun- 

 ningham, at the Fifteenth Annual Fair of the American Institute, in 

 October, 1842, and for which a premium was awarded, were raised 



