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on, and, after a spell of bad weather, all the paper bands 

 need renewing. This is a much cleaner way of bleaching 

 than the earthing-up method described above. 



The Celery Fly is a most troublesome pest. A descrip- 

 tion of it will be found on p. 135. 



Varieties : The red and pink coloured kinds are most 

 favoured for all but the earliest sowings. Sandringham 

 is a good early white ; Standard Bearer, Incomparabk 

 Crimson and Superb Pink are good tinted specimens. 



Celeriac is a turnip-rooted celery which should be 

 grown more frequently by amateurs than it is, as it 

 cooks without the stringiness of celery, is much hardier 

 and need not be grown in trenches. Culture is exactly 

 similar to that detailed earlier in this .chapter, but instead 

 of trenches it is grown on the flat in hard beds. In 

 planting, place the seedlings about a foot and a half 

 away, both along the rows and between them. Lifting 

 may be carried out in October ; the crop keeps well in 

 dry sand. 



