AMERICAN GARDENER. US' 



de, Cabbagc y keeping, as you are at work, your 

 feet close to the outside edges of the trench. Do 

 not water the plants ; and, if you plant in fresh- 

 dug ground, and fix your plants well, none of the 

 troublesome and cumbrous business of shading is 

 at all necessaiy ; for the plant is naturally hardy, 

 and, if it has heat to wither it above, it has also 

 that heat beneath to cause its roots to strike out 

 almost instantly. When the plants begin to grow, 

 which they quickly will de, hoe on each side and 

 between them with a small hoe. As they grow 

 up, earth their stems ; that is, put the earth up 

 to them, but not too much at a time ; and let the 

 earth that you put up be finely broken^ and not at 

 all cloddy. While you do this, keep the stalks 

 of the outside leaves close up to prevent the 

 earth from getting between the stems of the out- 

 side leaves and the inner ones ; for, if it get 

 there it checks the plant and makes the celery- 

 bad. When you begin the earthing take first 

 the edges of the trenches ; and do not go into the 

 middle of the intervals for the earth that you took 

 out of the trenches. Keep working backwards, 

 time after time, that is earthing after earthing, 

 till you come to the earth that you dug out of the 

 trenches ; and, by this time the earth against the 

 plants will be above the level of the land. Then 

 you take the earth out of the middle, till, at last 

 the earth against the plants forms a ridge and the 

 middle of each interval a sort of gutter. Earth 

 up -very often* and not put much at a time. Eve- 

 ry week a little earth to be p*\it up. Thus, in Oc- 

 tober, you will have four ridges of Celery across 

 one of the Plats, each containing 168 plants. I 

 shall suppose one of these ridges to be wanted for 



