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large tlie latter end of yiine, when you are to take off 

 the largeH: plants, to fet in ridges laid out from north to 

 fouth, of what len>i,th you pleaie, in ground which had 

 been well dunged in March, or wh.ere your earlieft crop 

 of Lettuces had been fown. Your ridges ought to 

 . be four feet, ridge from ridge, two feet in depth, and 

 well wrought at bottom, that the fibres of the Celery 

 may have free liberty to defcend, by which means they 

 will have large roots. In three weeks after planting they 

 will begin to fwell, and their leaves and flocks gradually 

 advance, when it will be proper to land them, that is, 

 to lay earth to the under part of the plants, which 

 mud: be done in dry weather, and upon no account 

 whatever, when the ridges are wet, as it wouid occafi- 

 on your Celery to rot, or become flicky, hard, and 

 ill-flavoured. Oberve that the earth is only to rife 

 witiiin one inch or two of the tops of their hearts ; 

 for were vou to cover them, they would be infallibly 

 deftroN ed ; therefore you are to eat th them as they ad- 

 vance, repeating it as tiiey grow, which will give them 

 fine, large, and well-coloured heads, eating crifp and 

 tender : fhould you obferve any part of them to fhoot 

 or fly up, or fhew their feed-veflels, let them be ufed 

 for foups, not for falladings; by Novetnher the feeding 

 plants fhould be taken up, as on the approach of the 

 frofl: they rot, and are apt to infeQ: the lound ones. 



To have Celery very large, I purfued the follow- 

 ing method, which I found to anfwer extremely well, 

 and which I difcovcred by the following accident. 



I had feme Celery plants, which flowered and feeded 

 very well in the lidges. Obferving that Tome of the 

 feeds had fallen in September, I raked the ground over 

 them ; in the beginning of Ocloher the young plants ap- 

 peared, and the winter came in fo mild, that tew of 

 them fuffered, but held out very well ; by the middle 

 of March I tranfplantcd them into a good rich nurfe- 

 ry-bed, fhading and watering them, until I per- 

 ceived them glowing. I kept them clear of wetds, 

 and they grew flocky and larger than the plants which 

 were fown the fpring following: however, tearing, if 

 they v/ere landed too foon, they might fly, become 

 rampant and ftitky, I planted them out into a fecond 

 O 3 nurfcry 



