t% THE AMERICAN GARDENER. 



When you have made your trench, put along it some 

 good rich compost manure, partly consisting of wood 

 sishes. Not dung ; or, at least, not dung fresh from the 

 yard ; for, if you use that, the celery will be rank and 

 pipy, and will not keep nearly so long or so well. Dig 

 this manure in, and break all the earth very fine as you 

 go. Then take up your plants, and trim off the long 

 roots. You will find that every plant has offsets to it, 

 coming up by the side of the main stem. Pull all these 

 offj and leave only the single stem. Gut the leaves off 

 80 as to leave the whole plant about six inches long. 



Plant them six inches apart, and fix them in the man- 

 ner dwelt on under the article cabbage. Do not water 

 the plants; and if you plant in fresh-dug ground, and 

 fix your plants well, none of the troublesome and cum- 

 brous business of shading is at all necessary ; 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, w^hich they quickly 

 will do, 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 outside leaves and the inner 

 ones ; for, if it get there it checks the plant and makes 

 the celery bad. 



Thus in October, you will have four ridges of celery 

 across one of the plats, each containing 168 plants. I 

 shall suppose one of these lidges to be wanted for use 

 before the frost sets in for good. Leave another ridge 

 to be locked 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 wet will not get down 

 into the hearts of the celery. 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 



