144 AMERICAN GARDENER. 



use before the frost sets in for good. Leave anoth- 

 er ridge to be lock-up, by the frost, a much safer 

 guardian than your cellar or barn-door. But, you. 

 must cover this ridge over in such a way that the 

 ivtt will not get down into the hearts of the celery. 

 Two boards, a foot wide each, their edges on one 

 sice laid upon the earth of the ridge, formed into 

 a roof over the point of the ridge, the upper 

 edge of one board going an inch over the upper 

 edge of the other, and the boards fastened well 

 with pegs, will do the business completely ; for, 

 it is not the frost, but the occasional thaws that 

 you have to fear, and the wet and rot that they 

 produce. For the celery that is to serve from the 

 setting in to the breaking up of the frost, you 

 must have a bed of sand, or light earth, in a 

 warm part of a barn, or in a cellar ; and there 

 you must lay it in, row after row, not covering the 

 points of the leaves. To have seed, take one 

 plant, in spring, out of the ridge left in the gar- 

 den. Plant it in an open place, and you will have 

 seed enough to serve a whole township. For soup, 

 the seed bruised is as good as the plant itself. 

 For the number of years that the seed will keep 

 good, see Paragraph 150. 



211. CHERVIL is an annual plant. Its leaves 

 a good deal like those of double parsley. They 

 are used in salads. A small patch, sown in rows, 

 like parsley, is enough. 



212. GIVES a little sort of onion, which is 

 perennial. The greens only are used. A small 

 quantity is sufficient* for a garden. This plant 

 may be propagated from v_>ed. or from offsets. 



213. CORIANDER is an annual plant that 

 some persons use in soups and salads. It is sown 



